Just read Masha Gessen's https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/18/the-holocaust-memorial-undone-by-a
in The New Yorker. It has several items I want to remember word for word:


"The problem with Putin's revisionist history is not just the centrality of the Soviet Union and Soviet military glory; it's that, like all Russian propaganda, it intentionally sows chaos. The effect is to produce a preferred historical narrative and a sense of nihilism - a consensus that good and evil are indistinguishable, that nothing is true and everything is possible."


This is a technique that is not new, but is made much more prevalent via the internet.


It goes beyond the old saw: "The first casualty in war is the truth."