‘I too was an orangutan in a zoo’: Russia’s bizarre propaganda in Ukraine - I Newz360

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Sunday, February 19, 2023

‘I too was an orangutan in a zoo’: Russia’s bizarre propaganda in Ukraine

Radio scripts found in liberated Kherson mix Soviet nostalgia with supposed humour and veiled threats

As morning broke over the Ukrainian city of Kherson last summer, those fumbling for their radios at 7am might have heard a Russian presenter greeting the day with his surreal imitation of a motivational video.

“As Lenin said: ‘In work we are forged.’ I too was an orangutan in a zoo, but when I started working hard I bought a car, built myself a villa in Crimea and even raised my IQ. Work as hard all day and you’ll be like me.”

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