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>Remember Russia has been the undisputed world champion of dezinformatsiya for centuries My friend, you seem to have mispelled United States of America
by oooooooooooow 5y ago
>Remember Russia has been the undisputed world champion of dezinformatsiya for centuries
My friend, you seem to have mispelled United States of America
- toss1 5y agoSure, correlates nicely (NOT) with the Russians having a word for it before it appeared in French or English [0] [0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/disinformation https://www.etymonline.com/word/disinformation
- manicdee 5y agoRussians had leading rocket science for years. They don’t now, and can barely assemble a rocket that works. Why is that? Does that loss of capability apply to other fields too?
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoSo if you were the first to invent misinformation, you would immediately add it to your local language to make that fact public? Doesn't make sense. You'd rather make up some newspeak code name. It's more plausible that Russians made the word to describe what their worst enemy (USA) was doing, so they could be aware of it and counter.