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Behind the Aegis

(53,823 posts)
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 06:14 AM Apr 2014

Want a Good Look at Putin’s Pervy Propaganda? See ‘The Furies of Maidan’

A Russian MP’s wild rant at a pregnant reporter was inspired by an ‘investigative report’ that blames Ukraine’s revolution on sexually frustrated women and claims, ‘They like it hard.’

Even amid the increasing surreality of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, ultranationalist MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s tirade against a pregnant reporter who asked a question about Ukraine stood out.

Besides telling the woman she shouldn’t work while pregnant, instructing a male aide to rape her, and shouting, “Damned lesbian!” at another female reporter who tried to rebuke him, Zhirinovsky lashed out at the women of Ukraine’s pro-independence Maidan movement, assailing them as sex-starved harpies. “There’s going to be a film about you, The Furies of Maidan,” he railed, apparently taking the female journalists for Maidan sympathizers. “You’ve all got uterine frenzy, the women of Maidan,” he ranted. “If it weren’t for this uterine frenzy, there wouldn’t be any Maidan.”

Zhirinovsky, who has apologized for his outburst at last week’s press conference and faces likely censure by the Duma, Russia’s parliament, is known for his outrageous antics. But it turns out The Furies of Maidan is not a figment of his imagination. It is a real “investigative report” that aired last Saturday on NTV, one of Russia’s major television networks. Subtitled “Sex, Psychosis, and Politics,” the 30-minute feature makes exactly the same point as Zhirinovsky’s rant: that the displaced energy of sexually frustrated or pathological women was a driving force behind Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution. In the dramatic words of the 45-second promo: “They like it hard. They are turned on by danger. And woe to anyone who fails to appreciate them.”

While the report could be mistaken for a clever if over-the-top parody clip, it is not. A wild mélange of paranoia, smear, sleaze, misogyny, and homophobia that makes Rush Limbaugh look politically correct, The Furies of Maidan offers a disturbing glimpse into the state of Russia’s government-run mainstream media—and into the toxic sludge of propaganda it regularly dumps on a largely uncritical public.

more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/25/want-a-good-look-at-putin-s-pervy-propaganda-see-the-furies-of-maidan.html

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any more weird....

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Want a Good Look at Putin’s Pervy Propaganda? See ‘The Furies of Maidan’ (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Apr 2014 OP
Another Putin tactic that is as old as Russian dirt BeyondGeography Apr 2014 #1
Bizarro world maddezmom Apr 2014 #2
Hey! I think he has posted on DU! Squinch Apr 2014 #3
LOL! Behind the Aegis Apr 2014 #7
damn. I wish "the furies of the maidan" video linked within that article on youtube m-lekktor Apr 2014 #4
Here is a nice collection of his bile including this peach: Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #5
Holy crap maddezmom Apr 2014 #6

BeyondGeography

(39,278 posts)
1. Another Putin tactic that is as old as Russian dirt
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 07:18 AM
Apr 2014

Claiming moral superiority to the defectives who would offer an alternative to the dreary realities of his rule.

m-lekktor

(3,675 posts)
4. damn. I wish "the furies of the maidan" video linked within that article on youtube
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 08:01 AM
Apr 2014

had english subtitles! i am dying to see the lunacy for laughs though it is pathetic! i haven't heard about or from that nutjob Zhironovsky in quite some time!

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
5. Here is a nice collection of his bile including this peach:
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 08:31 AM
Apr 2014

"All men hate you, ladies, they hate you. Because you prevent men from thriving… This is why all the crimes committed in the world are women’s fault.”
And this, about Condi Rice: “She is a black whore who needs a good cock. Send her here, one of our divisions will make her happy in the barracks one night. She will choke on Russian sperm as it will be leaking out of her ears... until she crawls to the US embassy in Moscow on her knees.”
http://www.vice.com/read/the-best-of-vladimir-zhirinovsky-russias-craziest-politician

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