Pro-Kremlin propaganda video blows Santa out of the sky
“We don’t need anything foreign in our skies,” Father Frost, the Russian blue dressed version of Santa, says after overlooking how the air defense shoot down Santa Claus and his reindeer.
The sick propaganda video was released on December 27 by the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel Pul N3. It soon spread on social media. The same Telegram channel had recently before posted the Russian misinformation about the Azerbaijani Airlines plane, saying “according to preliminary information, the cause of the crash of the airliner flying from Baku to Grozny was a collision of the plane with a flock of birds.”
38 people were killed in the crash which Azerbaijani intelligence says was caused by a Russian missile fired while Grozny was under drone attack.
The character playing the uniformed air defense officer in control of blowing Santa out of the skies above central Moscow is actor Dmitry Melnikov.
“That’s all! Target destroyed!,” Melnikov says with Father Frost (Ded Moroz) on his side.
The red dressed "Western" Santa Claus holds a Coca Cola can and his sleigh is filled with a variety of missiles with NATO logo. The "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" song plays in the background.
As Santa Claus and his sleigh explodes, his Russian equivalent smiles and wishes the air defense operator a "Happy New Year!"
Russians have released a propaganda video in which Russian air defense shoots down Santa Claus over Moscow.
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) December 27, 2024
You couldn't have picked a worse time to release this video on purpose. pic.twitter.com/cPd7xZkWmt
A main aim of Russian propaganda is to legitimize reactionary measures against so-called Western values.
Head of the Federal Project for Security and Anti-Corruption organization, Vitaly Borodin, earlier in December filed a request with the Prosecutor General's Office to declare Santa Claus as a foreign agent. Borodin argued that Santa Claus, unlike Ded Moroz, is favored in countries unfriendly to Russia.
This Christmas, the second after the full-scale attack on Ukraine, has come with a wave of anti-Western spin across the country.
In the north Russian city of Ukhta, a man was fined 10,000 rubles for violating the public picket rules as he dressed up like Santa. The police argued that it is illegal to voter one’s face with a mustache and beard when holding a one-person picket, the Barents Observer reported.
