Simonyan’s Famine Joke

The head of Russia’s entire Disinfolklore apparatus, Margarita Simonyan, like Kash Patel, gets Disinfolklore. She laid bare Russia’s master plan to win against Ukraine by recounting, in a folksy way, a folksy story she claims was doing the rounds in folksy metropolitan Moscow: “A cynical joke or perhaps an exclamation has appeared, I’ve already heard it from several of the folk in Moscow. ‘All hope is pinned on famine.’ What is meant is that famine will begin [in Africa] and they [in the West] will come to their senses, will remove sanctions and will be friends with us because it’s impossible to not be friends.”

Source: Book Proposal (May 2025)

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