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Re:KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview – Idealogical S... by yucky on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:33PM (#35100565) 

  > This ties well into the "three days to Kyiv" expectation at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This is actually a great example of our own propaganda at work. This "Three Days" quote came from one of our Generals, not from Russia.

Putin's statements from early on are all widely available (with English transcriptions) and they do not in anyway sound like the words of someone expecting to annex Ukraine into Russia in short order.

Which raises the question - why were we all fed this story? To what end?

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Re:KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview – Idealogical S... by rasz on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:56PM (#35100897)
russians claimed two days. Here Margarita Simonyan https://twitter.com/ruinwanderer/status/1622142324015878144
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Re:KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview – Idealogical S... by yucky on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:24PM (#35104453)
She's...a blogger lol

The claim is that the Russian government said they would take Kiev in 3 days which of course was not a claim ever made. IN fact, nothing close was ever said. It was a a US general (Milley I believe) who popularized the "3 days to take Kiev" meme.

It came from us, not them. So why do you think we've been told otherwise?

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