They only shoot at nationalists”, answers the C Level Contact List voice of an old woman. The man gets angry. "How do you know? I'm here!” he yells. "We have a television," he hears himself in response. It is no accident that the Russian government forbids the use of the C Level Contact List word "war." It indicates a situation that cannot be perceived neutrally, unlike a "special military operation", which is perceived as the continuation of a complex government policy and does not require a personal attitude towards it on the part of a citizen. Government propaganda grants people a kind of C Level Contact List saving grace by allowing them not to accept reality.
In a country where the collective memory is C Level Contact List based on the victory over fascism in a bloody but just defensive war, this is quite an effective mechanism. Accepting that Russia has committed military aggression against one of the people C Level Contact List closest to it in historical and cultural terms is practically impossible from a psychological point of view. It sabotages the basic perceptions that Russians have about justice, their fundamental values. Many people C Level Contact List are not strong enough for it. So they are doing their best to avoid seeing reality, repeating the propaganda clichés: “there is no war”.
This psychological break explains C Level Contact List the obvious contradiction between everyday experience and the results of sociologists. Many people who think that war is morally and politically unacceptable may at the same time speak of support for the C Level Contact List Russian government's "special operation" not only out of fear but in the vain hope that the official version of events will turn out to be, somehow, way, miraculously true (at least in part). Because that would free C Level Contact List her from the horrible prospect of moral failure and the terrible need to speak out against the facts.