Straight out of Orwell: Russia’s propaganda machine
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The Kremlin’s propaganda machine ensures that Russians have a much different view of the war in Ukraine than the rest of the world. Our correspondent spent a day immersed in Russian media, to learn what people there see—and what they don’t. The spectre of hyperinflation is once again stalking Zimbabwe. And our obituaries editor remembers a man who refused to let Japan forget its painful past.
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| 1:03.5 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. In New York, I'm John Fastman. |
| 1:10.4 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:17.3 | In 2009, Zimbabwe issued a $100 trillion note. |
| 1:22.4 | It barely paid for loaf of bread. |
| 1:24.7 | Its inflation rate then was probably upwards of 200 million percent. Today, the rate |
| 1:29.3 | is 152 percent and rising, leading many to fear that hyperinflation is coming back. America's |
| 1:38.3 | bombing of Tokyo in March of 1945 killed 100,000 people in a single night, almost as many as in the much more famous |
| 1:46.0 | nuclear attack on Hiroshima. |
| 1:47.9 | Our obituaries editor remembers a man who insisted that Japan not forget its past. |
| 1:55.5 | First up, though, |
| 1:58.7 | the Islamed people, Ukraine's President, Vlomier Zelenskyy, |
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