"Hitler had the same." Why does Putin not call war war - Peter Pomerantians replies

British writer and journalist Peter Pomerantsev explained in an interview with NB why Russian dictator Vladimir Putin did not call war in Ukraine war. Pomerantsev said NV that the Russians do not use the word "war", although the fact that Russia is now doing in Ukraine is "it is already genocide. " “Inside the country they try to create a feeling that it happens somewhere far away, that it is all international affairs and you are here [the Russians] to nothing.

They are still afraid of general mobilization, " - said the British writer, adding that" Hitler had the same. " Video of Video of Pomerantsev explained that by 1941 Hitler almost did not use the words "war", calling the fighting "operations". “Operation in Poland, for example. There was no legal ban, but Hitler tried to minimize the word "war". Because people do not want to live in the war, people want to live safe. Apparently. To humiliate, conquer, capture is nice, but you want to feel safe.

And the war is a recognition that I go, kill and die, ”he said. The British writer said that he recently read an article by a journalist from Der Spiegel, who came to Moscow and tried to describe it. “So there are no posters about the war, as if there is no war. On television, the war from everywhere, and on the streets of Moscow - no. You can live in Moscow and forget about the war. You are not mobilized to the army, they are fighting for you and others.

That is, the Russian authorities do not want this class of people living in Moscow, thinking about the war, knew about the war and feared it, ”he said. On September 1, Putin voiced a new "purpose" of war in Ukraine. During an open lesson in Kaliningrad, he stressed that an anti -Russian enclave was allegedly created in Ukraine, which threatens Russia itself. Its liquidation is the purpose of a "special military operation", - he said. Earlier, Putin called "help people in the Donbass in Ukraine.