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The Kremlin's Mind Bombs: "For the past eight months, the world has been subjected to a blitzkrieg of disinformation, distortions, and outright lies from Kremlin officials and the Russian media." - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

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Podcast: The Kremlin's Mind Bombs Friday November 14 th , 2014  at  10:11 PM Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 1 Share The Power Vertical Podcast: The Kremlin's Mind Bombs Print Comment Share: Is it real? Is it an illusion? Does it matter? November 14, 2014 I f it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and denies it's a duck -- it's probably Vladimir Putin's duck. For the past eight months, the world has been subjected to a blitzkrieg of disinformation, distortions, and outright lies from Kremlin officials and the Russian media. It's been a wild ride. It's been a baffling reinvention of reality. And its been a mass hallucination. No sooner is one Kremlin myth, lie, or distortion debunked than a dozen more pop up in its place. But there's a method to this madness. And it happens to be one of the strongest weapons in the Russian arsenal.