The Ukrainian Tragedy: Technologies of Driving Mad

Post-Ukraine was intentionally split. This happened against the backdrop of the state dying off, impunity, and the all-powerfulness of oligarchs. The situation is worsened by the fact that technologies of cognitive warfare are being applied against our societies—brand-new mass techniques for driving people mad. How did the Ukrainian tragedy unfold, and what must Russia do to overcome such processes within itself? Read in Semen Uralov’s new book.

"...Citizens love to talk about politics without realizing that the news from the TV or the actions of individual leaders are only the tip of the iceberg called 'politics.' In people’s heads, state processes are mixed with processes taking place in society. The ordinary person lives in society, but watches the politics of the state, naively believing that something depends on them. The boss uses the opportunities of the state but doesn’t understand what’s happening in society. Most books about politics tell stories about the fates of officials, but completely don’t say how ordinary people live. Books about ordinary people show a complicated life, but don’t take real politics into account. Sometimes it feels like society is separate and the authorities are separate. In real life there are no extremes. Processes unfold smoothly and sequentially—unless, of course, it’s a revolution or a Maidan.

This book reveals the secrets of what is happening deep inside society using the example of the former Ukraine. How did they drive society of a whole country mad? Why did former Soviet people turn into bloodthirsty Nazis and start killing other Soviet people like themselves? What was supposed to happen to Soviet society so that it began to hate both itself and its own past? How many years does it take to lead society to slaughter?

The authorities believed that the fraternal people lived the same life as we did, while irreversible processes were taking place inside Ukrainian society. The ordinary person, lulled by federal television, would get excited only when violence and bloodshed happened in Ukraine.

Now we see the living transformation of the former allied Ukraine society into self-destruction. If someone thinks this is all about Ukraine, they’re deeply mistaken. The book convincingly argues that if Russia doesn’t overcome the alienation between society and the state, it will inevitably follow Ukraine’s path.

The author examines the processes of driving Ukraine’s society mad within the framework of the concept of 'cognitive warfare'—the newest Western developments for manipulating the masses and increasing the number of 'little idiots.' Cognitive warfare is an objective process connected with the fact that we’ve all become part of a global information network and live inside cultural images and US stereotypes. The number of 'little idiots' in our country has gone off the charts. Of course, it’s easy to manipulate such a society.

From election to election, society was systematically changed, offering new and new benchmarks. They turned a minority into a majority by manipulating and lying. The book explains these processes in detail. Anyone who thinks that the mind-muddling technologies used against our fellow citizens can’t be used against our own society is deeply wrong.

Even now, the SВО in the territory of the former Ukraine is turning into a large war against Russia. At the same time as fighting on 'the ground,' a new stage of cognitive warfare has begun—this time against Russia’s society. The Ukrainian experience was nothing more than a proving ground and an experimental laboratory for NATO and the United States.

I strongly recommend the book to readers interested in politics, the newest history, sociology, modern media and political technologies. Today, society in Russia is being driven mad with the same methods that were used in the former brother republic. Therefore, this book shouldn’t just sit in the library—it should be somewhere closer to a first-aid kit. If you feel yourself being driven mad or manipulated, immediately start taking in chapters from this book. Uralov’s texts invigorate you and return you to reality no worse than ammonia..."

Dmitry “Goblin” Puchkov