"And now one of them has vanished. Now people without the intelligence to distinguish Radio Liberty from a radio receiver have accepted an equation from the hands of executioners and tyrants. This equation is much stronger than an electric current: 2+2=5."
- Stanislav Aseyev
https://snyder.substack.com/p/225
3/3 end
"By that time I’d managed to write fifty-some articles for Radio Liberty, which exposed the totalitarian world of torture in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The masked people who tortured me told me Radio Liberty was still a branch of the CIA, and therefore an unequivocal enemy of Russia.
Like I said, everything was simple: two worlds – freedom and tyranny – and a chair with wires between them like a border between these worlds."
2/3
"The electric current that ran through my body on April 11, 2017, for articles I’d written for Radio Liberty, forces my muscles to contract. Victims’ psyches 'contract' in the same way, enabling them to endure torture: the organism musters everything it has.
Sitting in that chair at the 'Ministry of State Security' in Russian occupied Donetsk, I knew why I was there."
1/3
Now people without the intelligence to distinguish Radio Liberty from a radio receiver have accepted an equation from the hands of executioners and tyrants. This equation is much stronger than an electric current: 2+2=5."
- @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social
5/6
#USpol #media #journalism #RadioLiberty
2+2=5
Like I said, everything was simple: two worlds – freedom and tyranny – and a chair with wires between them like a border between these worlds.
And now one of them has vanished.
4/6
#USpol #media #journalism #RadioLiberty
2+2=5
The masked people who tortured me told me Radio Liberty was still a branch of the CIA, and therefore an unequivocal enemy of Russia.
3/6
#USpol #media #journalism #RadioLiberty
2+2=5
Sitting in that chair at the 'Ministry of State Security' in Russian occupied Donetsk, I knew why I was there. By that time I’d managed to write fifty-some articles for Radio Liberty, which exposed the totalitarian world of torture in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
2/6
#USpol #RadioLiberty
2+2=5
"The electric current that ran through my body on April 11, 2017, for articles I’d written for Radio Liberty, forces my muscles to contract. Victims’ psyches 'contract' in the same way, enabling them to endure torture: the organism musters everything it has."
1/6
#USpol #journalism #RadioLiberty
2+2=5
2+2=5: "America destroys one of its own symbols," by Stanislav Aseyev
"In violation of the law and the #Constitution, the #tRump administration purports to have closed Radio Free/Radio Liberty, a medium which is the source of much of what we known about #Russia and the post-communist world."
#radioliberty #rfe #orwell #censorship #ruleoflaw
https://snyder.substack.com/p/225
Stanislav Aseyev, ein ukrainischer Journalist, berichtete von 2015 bis 2017 für Radio Liberty über die erste russische Invasion. Bis er 962 Tage in russischer Folterhaft saß. Dieser Text von Aseyev ist eine Reaktion auf die Entscheidung der Trmp-Regierung, Radio Liberty zu schließen. TS #ukraine #radioliberty
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