One of the best blogs I came across explaining the Russian propaganda

“Zelensky is Hilter”, my mother-in-law said yesterday to my fifteen-year-old son who is now my wife’s only connection to her mother. Usually, my wife would talk to her mom on WhatsApp several times a week. But a few weeks ago they had a heated debate about the war and my mother-in-law stopped answering my wife’s calls; she does though continue to speak to her grandson. So we know she's ok. She’s almost eighty, on her own in Moscow. My wife is very worried about her.

I’m probably wrong to mention the “heated debate”. My wife had no intention to “debate” but inevitably the topic of the war comes up and that’s when my mother-in-law gets enraged. She denies there is a war in the first place, that’s killing thousands and displacing millions. And of course, she believes that Russia is doing the right thing by fighting the Ukrainian Nazis. She says the images we are seeing in the West are all fake or staged.

It’s not the war itself that at this point continues to occupy my mind. I don’t mean to appear indifferent but the fact of the raging war has sunk it; the sense of shock that I experienced in the initial days of the war has subsided. What continues to perplex me is how Russia’s hundred-plus million people support the war. And let be me more straight — it’s not that they are silent or neutral or are hopeful for a peaceful solution. They support the war. They want more blood. They expect a victory for the ages.