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Boris Bondarev resigned in protest on Monday from his Foreign Ministry post at the UN Office at Geneva, his letter flatly stating, “Never have I been so ashamed of my country.”
Written in English, Bondarev’s letter was delivered by an unnamed diplomatic source to the Associated Press.
“For twenty years of my diplomatic career I have seen different turns of our foreign policy, but never have I been so ashamed of my country as on February 24 of this year. The aggressive war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine, and in fact against the entire Western world, is not only a crime against the Ukrainian people, but also, perhaps, the most serious crime against the people of Russia, with a bold letter Z crossing out all hopes and prospects for a prosperous free society in our country.”
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What Bondarev says about the Russian government is equally true of our own government, with it’s “Ministry of Truth”, and “operation Mockingbird” CIA control of the media - that they are “producing propaganda cliches in the spirit of the Soviet newspapers of the 1930s… not about diplomacy, but about warmongering, lies, and hatred”.
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I’m not sure that his opinion is trustworthy that it’s a crime against Russia as it is for Ukraine, in fact they are Russian and minorities in Ukraine that say the opposite.
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As he says, “they are pushing so many narratives, who knows”? The propaganda coming from all sides has created a fog too thick to see through.
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