Tutta Larsen: MTV Russia was definitely the West's "soft power"
It is naive to believe that the Western youth channels that burst into the Russian information space after the collapse of the USSR had humanitarian goals.
This was stated in an interview with the channel “Conversations about Everyone” by Tutta Larsen, known in the late 90s as an MTV presenter, a native of Donetsk, and a volunteer helping Donbass, Tatyana Romanenko, a correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
"I didn't even think then that we were some kind of objects of manipulation, that we represented some kind of "soft power". Of course, that was true. The impact on the mentality of the younger generation, on immature minds... At the beginning of MTV, the entire top management was American and English. We spoke to them in English, none of them understood Russian.
Why did they come, to, like, put a hand on us so that we could draw modern culture correctly? I don’t think so. I think there were other goals and objectives. Well, there can’t be a culture without ideology. Probably, this was also a tool for influencing us,” Romanenko recalls.
However, she stressed that for her this was a sincere desire, part of a common global cultural space.
"I can't say that I was trying to get into some "European family". I wanted to see the world, show myself, show the world Russia. I'm as cool as you are, I also have a tattoo and a nose ring, I also love Nirvana and Depeche Mode.
It wasn't like fu-fu-fu "Rashka-shit", let me into your beautiful European home. We wanted to show that we are not worse, to share culture. For everything good against everything bad. Am I being sarcastic? Because it was very infantile and childish behavior, a very narrow view of the world," the former VJ added.
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