{"id":9808,"date":"2024-02-21T14:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=9808"},"modified":"2024-02-21T14:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T14:20:48","slug":"when-my-country-invaded-ukraine-i-faced-a-choice-give-me-propaganda-or-give-me-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=9808","title":{"rendered":"When My Country Invaded Ukraine, I Faced a Choice: Give Me Propaganda or Give Me Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">A month later, the world saw images of mass graves in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, dead limbs sticking out of the sand. Outside our building one morning, on an old brick wall that was previously empty, was a fresh message, the paint still wet: \u201cRussians, go home.\u201d My boyfriend went back to Russia so he could obtain a European visa, promising he would be back in a month, but he never returned.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Clothing Glove Adult Person Footwear Shoe People Accessories Bag Handbag and Hat\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/65d4d9fcf3bb85bd1effbd17\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/final_censored.jpg\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/65d4d9fcf3bb85bd1effbd17\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/final_censored.jpg 120w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/65d4d9fcf3bb85bd1effbd17\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/final_censored.jpg 240w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/65d4d9fcf3bb85bd1effbd17\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/final_censored.jpg 320w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/65d4d9fcf3bb85bd1effbd17\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/final_censored.jpg 640w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/65d4d9fcf3bb85bd1effbd17\/master\/w_960,c_limit\/final_censored.jpg 960w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/65d4d9fcf3bb85bd1effbd17\/master\/w_1280,c_limit\/final_censored.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/65d4d9fcf3bb85bd1effbd17\/master\/w_1600,c_limit\/final_censored.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd iggRJP fNaHcW caption__credit\">ARTWORK: MICHELLE THOMPSON; GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">I spent the<\/span> rest of the year on the move: Cyprus, Estonia, Norway, France, Austria, Hungary, Sweden. I went where I had friends. The independent Russian media that I\u2019d always consumed went into exile too, setting up operations where they could. TV Rain began broadcasting out of Amsterdam. Meduza moved its Russian branch to Europe. The newspaper <em>Novaya Gazeta<\/em>, cofounded by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov, reopened in Latvia. Farida Rustamova, a former BBC Russia correspondent, fled and launched a Substack called <em>Faridaily<\/em>, where she began publishing information from Kremlin insiders. Journalists working for the independent news website Important Stories, which published names and photos of Russian soldiers involved in the murder of civilians in a Ukrainian village, went to Czechia. These, along with 247,000 other websites, were blocked at the behest of the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office but remained accessible in Russia through VPNs.<\/p>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf kgVYDs\">\n<div class=\"PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx knYsPB\">\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThe news in Russia is only ever good news. Even if people understand that they\u2019re being brainwashed, in the end they give up. Because they simply have nowhere to run.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cDuring the first days of the war, everything was in a fog,\u201d says Ilya Krasilshchik, the former publisher of Meduza, who went on to found Help Desk, which combines news media and a help hotline for those impacted by war. \u201cWe felt it our duty to inform people of what the Russian army was doing in Ukraine, to document the hell that despair and powerlessness leave in their wake. 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