In an article published by thecritic.co.uk website, Stanisław Żaryn said weekly press conferences held by Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova are "festivals of aversion, hostility or even hatred towards the countries caught in the Kremlin’s crosshairs."
"The world is evil, the West is depraved and corrupt, it poses a threat to Russia — such are the main messages spread by Zakharova," said Żaryn, who is a spokesman for Poland’s security services chief.
He added: "The elites of the Kremlin want the Russian public to feel threatened by an imaginary foreign enemy; it helps to consolidate society around the country’s political leadership. It is therefore granted that the harder the situation (of the Kremlin elites), the more blatant and shameless these lies will get. In the current setting, the latter assumption may be exactly the case."
Żaryn, who serves as the director of the National Security Department at the Polish Prime Minister’s Office in Warsaw, said: "The hatred expressed by Russian top officials is crucial for one more reason — it helps them obscure the truth about Russia’s own aggression, the war waged on Ukraine, and information warfare efforts taken against NATO.
"Pushing an aggressive anti-Western agenda is there to make Russian society — subjected to manipulation and fed with fear — demand from their leadership that it responds to 'hostile provocations of the West'."
(pk/gs)
Source: thecritic.co.uk