Putin's Empire was built on lies.

As I was consistently saying in my many blog posts it is lies rather than strongman appeal that keeps Putin in power.

To put it simply they tell people that the collective West intends to genocide Russia and all ethnic Russians and Putin is the only thing that stops them. 

As someone who lived in Australia for more 16 years idea that the collective West intends to genocide Russia is laughable. However, that does not stop people like Dmitri Kiselev and Vladimir Solovyev and rather personalities on Russian TV to claim that the threat is real. 

The less ordinary inhabitant of Moscow has exposure to any alternative sources of information and opinions, the more likely they will choose Putin over a certain genocide promised to them by Putin's propaganda machine.

To make sure alternative options do not spread in Russia, they ban independent media and put all those who question truthfulness of Western genocidal intentions in prisons.

Thus, lies from Ostankino tower reign in Moscow and prop Putin's build on ignorance Empire.

I do hope the truth will indeed prevail one day.

Picture is a North Korean propaganda poster that shows US soldiers throwing Korean babies in a well to their death for no reason at all.

The kind of propaganda that mobilizes North Korean public to support Kim's regime as an alternative to having their babies slaughtered for no reason at all. Dictatorial minds think alike, both in Russia and North Korea.

However, what would happen to their support for Kim of they find out that they have no real reason to fear this happening to their babies. To put is simply Kim would not last too long in power, if the truth will become a common knowledge in his 'hermit kingdom'.