Kremlin sponsors anti Ukraine protest

Moscow, February 21  – Today’s rally in Moscow is a spectacle of Vladimir Putin’s orchestration of popular support for his policies in Ukraine. The Propaganda Ministry deployed 40,000 people with new banner flags and commercially made  protest banners. At the sides strong armed elite military looking troops were present.

Not that the protest would go wrong. But a reminder to news reel viewers that the Kremlin has them for another day. The rally serves to provide visual support for the fiction that Kiev’s Maidan Square is all about fascism out to destroy Russia.

German ARD correspondent Bernd Großheim reports:

After a march through the city center, thousands of people put in front of a stage arranged in the vicinity of Red Square. From the stage theories come, who is responsible for the war in Ukraine:

“Maidan is the smile of the American ambassador, sitting in his penthouse in Kiev and is happy about how brothers go off on each other. Maidan is an embroyo of Goebbels, an implanted human like creature that rages in a house of God! “

Brend reports that university students said they were forced to join the protests.”

“We are here involuntarily. There was a regulation by the Director, from each group would come five people. Well, here we are now.”

Many of the young people did not participate in the rally. They rolled up their brand new flags and streamed toward Metro.

The choreography of Saturday’s protest follows the Soviet Playbook to manufacture the appearance of popular support from fiction. Fiction that in this international capital city residents actually believe that Kiev and it’s president Petro Poroshenko are plotting the overthrow of the Russian Federation.

The photos in Gazeta.ru reveal the march’s carnival atmosphere. This is Moscow in the dead of dreary winter – bring out the colorful red flags and join the fun. On the podium the speakers are wearing the latest chic fashions.

Kremlin Sponsored Anti-Ukraine Rally

The parade photos suggest the marchers to be mid-level career civil servants on the Kremlin payroll. Mostly men. The women turned out in the latest chic fashions.

The Anti Maidan March is Moscow’s answer to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

A march simply filling Russia’s vacuum of indifference to the suffering people of Ukraine’s east. 

Published February 22, 2015