Russia’s chief propagandist Vladimir Solovyov launched into a tirade against his own audience on May 30 after some expressed joy at drones exploding over an upmarket district in Moscow that’s home to many Russian officials.
Speaking on his TV show "Solovyov Live", he advised his fellow citizens to “come to their senses” after becoming incensed by viewers’ comments.
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“Why are you guys writing this bulls**t?” he asked. “Do you like the fact that a strike has happened in Moscow? Why are you so happy? Do Russian people not live there? Are they not our compatriots?”
He added: “What are you making such a big deal out of? Or have we no longer got a united country… a united people?”
Solovyov’s rant came just a few hours after the Russian capital came under attack from kamikaze drones that damaged two buildings and injured two people.
Moscow authorities said eight drones were used in the attack, though other non-state media sources claimed the real number was closer to 25. A senior Russian lawmaker said three drones had been downed over the capital's exclusive Rublyovka suburb where Russian President Vladimir Putin has an official residence.
State propagandist Vladimir Solovyov went off on Tuesday morning against his Russian compatriots who jeered at the fact that many of the drones that attacked Moscow were intercepted in and around the city’s most notoriously affluent suburb. Class war! pic.twitter.com/rn4q63gOii
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Solovyov told his viewers to be “careful with their intonation,” adding: “Shove your ego up your ***hole… think about the country and think about the people.”
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His viewers’ opinions appeared to be shared by Wagner Private Military Group Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. whose profanity-laden outburst on May 30 lambasted officials from the Russian Defense Ministry for allowing drones to fly over Moscow. He accused them of failing to step up and implored them to “tear the s**t out of their offices.”
At the same time, Prigozhin appeared to be fine with drones flying over the elite Rublyovka suburb.
“The fact that they fly into Rublyovka – to hell with it, let your houses go up in flames,” he said. “But what are ordinary people to do when drones carrying explosives crash into their windows.”
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