Gross on Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda in Romania
“Sputnik, one of Russia’s premier disinformation sites, describes Nicolae Ceaușescu – the apprentice shoemaker who took over the country in 1965 and transmuted into a North Korea’s Kim Il-sung-like character in the 1970 – the hero who ‘rebuilt the nation’, our Fellow, Peter Gross writes in his article published by the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.
Russian disinformation campaigns in Romania dovetail “with Russia’s overall aims in Romania and other former communist countries of creating distrust of national leaders and institutions; spreading panic, confusion, and apropos policies; and stimulating xenophobia, anti-Americanism, and anti-Western feelings,” he writes, adding that Russia “also regularly interferes in Romanian elections and occasionally increases its diablerie in the continuing dispute between Bucharest and its Hungarian minority.”