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« on: March 10, 2022, 1657 UTC »
Hey All,
Group W seemed to be unavailable, so I hope this is OK here.
Recently independent Dozhd / TV Rain Russia signed off under intense pressure from Putin.
After the staff walked off the set, the station began to play an old short video loop from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Ballet.
Apparently, this was an old signal that the Soviets used to prepare the masses for big news, re instability or leadership change.
The loop was of ballerinas dancing for around a minute. It would be played over and over and over again for hours and hours and hours on Soviet state TV and radio.
This was done during the 1991 Russian coup attempt, and the deaths of Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko.
Obviously, TV Rain co-opted the old Soviet warning as their notice to the Russian people that the country was in BIG trouble.
Swan Lake represents a “mourning for broken dreams, sadness for opportunities lost or regrets for unfulfilled plans”.
Who thought of using Swan , KGB psyops?
For Russians, it’s a kind of EAS/ EBS warning tone played on flutes and violins.Everyone knows what this video means.
I find this procedure almost bizarre, and there certainly is no counterpart to in in the West.
When JFK was shot , TV just broke right in. We didn’t need to prepare ( or warn certain people in the country) that something big was happening. We just did it.
Again , strange.
K
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