Russian “Peace” in Practice: Life Under Russian Occupation in Ukraine
Russian occupiers of parts of Ukraine have advanced a policy to render cultural, economic and political occupation permanent. The longer occupation is allowed, the greater the integration of these territories into Russia – and the harder it becomes to reverse that, suggest Julia Friedrich and Polina Lebedeva in their commentary for the
Global Public Policy Institute. A lesser-known part of the occupation experience is the cognitive violence exercised by the Russian occupiers: the erasure of Ukrainian identity, the use of propaganda, and the attempted transformation of ‘hearts and minds’, all fuelled by deliberate disinformation, in a chaotic information environment. The ensuing sense of hopelessness is instrumental in breaking resistance, getting Ukrainians to comply, and, sometimes, to collaborate, making occupation harder to reverse with every day that Kyiv lacks the means to liberate them.
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