‘Peninsula of Terror’: Putin Forced Millions of Russians to Enjoy All-Expense-Paid Trips to Crimea

RI Staff

We chanced upon one of the great classics of State Department propaganda, and just couldn’t resist sharing it with our readers.

Feast your eyes upon this triumph of western journalism, which was terrifying news consumers shortly after Russia “annexed” Crimea:

A rough translation of this beauty: “Russia sent 700,000 people to Crimean resorts against their will“.

The source for this shocking and outrageous claim is some sort of ex-Ukrainian minister of tourism.

Like all good propaganda, this crime against humanity is based on a shred of truth.

In the early days of reunification with Russia, Crimea was desperate for tourists.

There are several reports that suggest that Russian government officials were treated to subsidized trips to Crimea as part of their yearly paid vacation time.

Allegedly, security service chiefs across Russia were “pressured” into offering their officers subsidized trips to the peninsula.

But we know stories of ordinary Russians with government jobs who were offered essentially free trips to Crimea.

This is of course a direct violation of the Geneva Convention and the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

It’s no wonder that the human rights envoy for Ukraine’s parliament, Valeriya Lutkovskaya, described Crimea as a “peninsula of terror.” And now we understand why Victoria Nuland spoke out against the “reign of terror” in Crimea.

We thought she was just a witch. But now it finally all makes sense.

Subsidized trips to seaside resorts? How do Russians live under so much cruelty and oppression?