MH17 to 1984

I am to this very day still amazed and bewildered at how many people (many Russians, yet some west Europeans also), actually believe in the propaganda that the MH17 was shot down by Ukrainian SU-25s.

While sites like Pravda.ru and RT have removed all mention of these news after the event, several official and/or government-owned Russian newspapers still contain the news of the "AN-26 transport plane" shot down over Torez by the separatists of the ДНР/DPR ("Donetsk People's Republic") around 16:00 local time (14:00 UTC). The same place, the same day, the same time that the MH17 fell.

Never again have we heard of this mysterious AN-26, nor have the news disappeared or been "corrected". For some examples, see and take the effort of at last google translating some of the following articles:

http://itar-tass.com/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1325017

http://ria.ru/world/20140717/1016409306.html

And even in obviously pro-Russian blogs, even going to cite Strelkov's site in VKontakte (Russia's Facebook) writing "We warned you - don't fly in our skies", eventually removed from the site.

http://topwar.ru/54473-an-26-ukrainskih-vvs-sbit-bliz-toreza-opolchency-zayavlyayut-i-o-sbitoy-sushke.html

Other channels like LifeNews, has tried to change the time of the event to 17:30 local time,

http://lifenews.ru/news/136801

and removed the original video, which cites 17:00 Moscow time (16:00 in Ukraine), to be seen clearly here from approximately 0:47 (if need be, ask a Russian-speaking friend to translate):


Welcome to George Orwell's "1984", today. Where people are brainwashed to believe that chocolate rations double from 8 grams to 4 grams and 2 + 2 is 5. I will probably not prove anything to these very people, those who I wish would read and think, and that's the most frightful thing. That today's propaganda still works just as well as it did in Nazi Germany and Communist USSR, even when the truth is within such easy reach.

So why did I bother?

Because I am a naive idealist, who selfishly writes for his own peace of mind...