Volodymyr Solovyov, who is considered the favorite propagandist of President Vladimir Putin, explained on his broadcast “Russia-1” that “Soviet gulags were better than Nazi camps” because they only “re-educated” and not “dehumanized” and therefore “descendants Nazism” do not see Russians “as people, but as orcs”.

Volodymyr SolovyovPhoto: video shooting
  • “In the forced labor camps of the Soviet Union, they knew your name, and you knew under what law you were in prison, you were an individual. In German concentration camps, you no longer had individuality,” explained Solovyov.
  • According to him, the Soviet Gulags were “for re-education”, whereas the Nazi concentration camp, “a European concentration camp, was intended to destroy you as a person and tear you to pieces”.
  • “Now, the descendants of the Nazi idea in Europe, they talk about us as Orcs, they talk about us as citizens of Russia who should bear responsibility (…) they don’t see us as individuals, they don’t see us as people. Dehumanization. It deprives us of the right to be ourselves. This is the main difference between us and them. Ukraine, sick of Nazism, does not perceive us as people. To them, we are orcs, racists, but we still feel sorry for them. We still consider them ours, but they have lost their minds. We hate the sin, not the sinner. That’s why we will win.”

Solovyov also managed to shock one of the most famous Western analysts of the Russian mass media, Francis Scarr of the BBC, when the TV presenter accused Olaf Scholz of imitating his “idol” Adolf Hitler and called for missile strikes on military units of German bases where Ukrainian soldiers are trained to use Cheetah tanks (not anti-aircraft tanks).

In another speech in August, the host, widely regarded as President Vladimir Putin’s favorite propagandist, appeared to forget the language imposed by the Kremlin on Russian media and called a “special military operation” a war for which some Russians have been arrested and accused of spreading “false” information. .

In June, he instigated an invasion of the country under the leadership of Scholz.