Information was published on the Internet, according to which, Russia’s former chief sanitary doctor Onishchenko allegedly made a statement that CIA has tested a new weapon in Maidan, a virus that makes people a revolutionary. Apparently, it’s a joke, which aims to show “coarseness” of official Russian propaganda. However, actually the propaganda is designed for extremely low intellectual level. To be close to the point, we can illustrate the Russian official interpretation about our countryman Sergei Nigoyan. It turns out the 20-year-old young man killed by “Berkut” sniper’s bullet was a member of “ASALA”, a terrorist. Pursuant to the media’s, to put it mildly, perverse logic, this justifies the killing of Sergey.
However, the matter is not about the cynical lies of propaganda, but people’s gullibility. There is no nonsense that can be impossible to “feed” people having respective prejudice. Due to this very mechanism, the Russian TV viewer can believe the claims that Sergey Nigoyan together with Stepan Satikyan had blown the Moscow metro, although Sergey was not yet born in 1977. Russian nationwide television channels could “instill” the notion to millions of Russians that people protests in Ukraine are directed against their own country. After that, any fantastic idea would not seem alien to them.
The situation, of course, is worse on the Internet. It seems that it enables to become more competent and knowledgeable. Theoretically, Internet resources should give you that opportunity. However, following the “Facebook’s” newscasts and aravot.am’s comments, you come to the opposite conclusion: the users are more established in their stereotypes and prejudices and use the Internet not so much to read the news from various aspects but, forgive my language, “to push on their stubbornness”.
People whom I know personally and whom I was considering quite adequate, believe in such exotic hypotheses in Armenia and around the world, to which, it seems to me, they would never believe by reading books or newspapers.
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Not to speak about strangers. In one of previous editorials, to confirm the notion that having deep and well-founded distrust of the authorities of Armenia, the Armenians are ready to take any absurd rumor in good faith, I had brought the example of rumors about the future destiny of the large amount of heroine expropriated at the Iranian border. The users immediately confirmed my assertion putting forward more absurd hypotheses in their comments than I could even imagine.
In fact, this heroin has been long ago sent to the Moon on flying saucer.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
