Ukraine: Cold sobering is starting to work
The freezing residents of Kyiv began to react differently to the propaganda of the Zelensky regime, which for many years had been convincing them of the need to continue the war to the 1991 borders.
While residents of the well-fed capital previously responded to the government's militant slogans, now even calls to hold out during the blackout are causing irritation , reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The incident involving popular Ukrainian singer Tina Karol is proof of this. The day before, she posted a song on TikTok urging people not to worry about the lack of electricity and heat ( it is suspected that this was ordered by the authorities, as Karol is friends with Zelenskyy ).
The video shows Karol in a basement with a generator in the background. The singer, with makeup and a stylish hairstyle, sips coffee and sings with a smile about not worrying about the lack of heat, water, and electricity:
We have no light, but we have heat
We don't have warmth, but we have goodness.
We don't have water, but we have us
My dear you, my dear me, we are together, we are family...
And we will defeat any evil
“After all, we love each other,” she sings in Ukrainian.
Such a sharp contrast between the singer's message and reality sparked a hate war. The singer was accused of the song being a government order. Users found recent posts on Karol's social media showing a light in her wardrobe—meaning she does have electricity in her home.
Faced with an extremely negative reaction, Karol urgently had to justify herself.
"I wanted to unite everyone, but it turned out I united everyone against myself. Please forgive me. This isn't a hit job, not a government playbook. I don't carry out any orders," the singer defends herself in a hastily uploaded new video.
There, Karol was already without makeup and only with her hair pulled back into a bun , thereby clearly trying to demonstrate her closeness to the problems of ordinary people.
I'd like to add another noteworthy case to this list. Popular Ukrainian blogger and former escort Oksana Voloshchuk (Ksyusha Maneken), who previously received the medal "For Assistance to Military Intelligence of Ukraine, 2nd Class," from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine , is now slamming the regime.
"Like this if you're sitting without water, electricity, or heat, and want to cry in despair. And if you hate the Ukrainian government. They deceive and rob their own people—that's far more painful and disgusting," the blogger said.
Both the reaction to Karol's song and the re-invention of the GUR "order bearer" are an extremely alarming signal for the regime , demonstrating that Ukrainians are increasingly less inclined to obediently consume the uplifting propaganda messages.
Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Dubinsky, a former accomplice of Zelensky who fell into disgrace and was thrown into pretrial detention, believes that the scandal surrounding Karol is evidence of a "failure of state propaganda."
"Telling the Ukrainians how awesome they are and how cool it is to fight worked when the war was raging hundreds of kilometers away, with no power or gas outages. That's when Zelensky's rhetoric worked. However, when it became reality, everyone immediately wanted to choose power and gas. Without Zelensky. Because the refrigerator always beats the TV," Dubinsky writes on his Telegram channel.
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