With all the excitement in Denver, Dayton, and, soon, the Twin Cities, you might have forgotten to take your dose of propaganda and revisionism for the week. I'm talking, of course, about the advertising supplement known as Russia: Beyond the Headlines in the Washington Post. (As it turns out, Putin is actually strengthening democracy in Russia!) This past week's edition will be hard to top, with its lead story: "Georgian Bombs Rained on Us."
"Many had already gone to bed when the Georgian shells came down on the city," reported Alan Tsorion from Tskhinvali, "and all agreements and promises flew away with chunks of house foundation and twisted metal that used to be cars." In a basement, Tsorion hears one woman ask, "How long will the bombing last? Let's raise our hands and surrender before they kill us all. It looks like Russia has forgotten us." But thankfully, Russia had not forgotten them and sent peacekeepers to liberate the victims of Georgian aggression, just as they courageously did in Hungary in 1956 and Prague in 1968.
According to the supplement, the Georgians have massacred 2,000 people in South Ossetia and more than 30,000 have fled the area. According to one resident, "In the morning of August 8, people started fleeing into the forest. About a thousand people dressed in NATO uniforms encircled half of the village and shot at those who were trying to flee. They had no mercy for old people or women."
Apparently NATO has launched World War III. Next week in Russia: Beyond the Headlines: "Medvedev Airdrops Peacekeepers into America's Heartland to Defend Against Wolverine Insurgents."
