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Please read a new essay by my Hoover colleague, Paul Gregory. Vladimir Putin\u2019s propaganda machine has two overarching goals. First, the Russian people must believe the Kremlin version of domestic and world events. In this regard, the agents of Russian \u201cinformation technology\u201d have succeeded. Polls\u00a0show\u00a0that Russians believe that Russia is a super power in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[375,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Sz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12795,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/russias-putin-and-navalny-collide-who-will-survive\/","url_meta":{"origin":11071,"position":0},"title":"Russia’s Putin and Navalny collide; who will survive?","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill To understand the events of Russian dissident\u00a0Aleksei Navalny\u2019s near-fatal poisoning and his Jan. 17 return to Russia, you must know that there are two Navalnys: Navalny No. 1 is described by Kremlin-controlled media as a CIA agent, corrupt,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11043,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/putins-nuclear-posturing-part-of-effort-to-win-back-displeased-public\/","url_meta":{"origin":11071,"position":1},"title":"Putin’s nuclear posturing part of effort to win back displeased public","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This article is by a colleague of mine: Dr. Paul Gregory \/\/ The Hill Vladimir Putin served up his election platform for his perfunctory March 18 re-election in his\u00a0annual address\u00a0to the two houses of Russia\u2019s parliament on Thursday. 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