{"id":928,"date":"2018-06-25T12:06:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/shocking-the-editor-in-chief-of-the-disinformation-website-juraj-polacek-admitted-that-the-russian-government-spends-eur-1-billion-a-year-on-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T20:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:37:33","slug":"shocking-the-editor-in-chief-of-the-disinformation-website-juraj-polacek-admitted-that-the-russian-government-spends-eur-1-billion-a-year-on-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/en\/shocking-the-editor-in-chief-of-the-disinformation-website-juraj-polacek-admitted-that-the-russian-government-spends-eur-1-billion-a-year-on-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking: The editor-in-chief of the disinformation website, Juraj Pol\u00e1\u010dek, admitted that the Russian government spends EUR 1 billion a year on propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/en\/shocking-the-editor-in-chief-of-the-disinformation-website-juraj-polacek-admitted-that-the-russian-government-spends-eur-1-billion-a-year-on-propaganda\/#Conspiracy_theorist_Juraj_Polacek_has_gone_completely_mad\" >Conspiracy theorist Juraj Pol\u00e1\u010dek has gone completely mad.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/en\/shocking-the-editor-in-chief-of-the-disinformation-website-juraj-polacek-admitted-that-the-russian-government-spends-eur-1-billion-a-year-on-propaganda\/#The_positive_side_of_Mr_Polacek_he_admitted_that_Russia_spent_one_billion_EUR_on_propaganda_in_2017\" >The positive side of Mr. Pol\u00e1\u010dek: he admitted that Russia spent one billion EUR on propaganda in 2017.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conspiracy_theorist_Juraj_Polacek_has_gone_completely_mad\"><\/span><strong>Conspiracy theorist Juraj Pol\u00e1\u010dek has gone completely mad.<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><p> <strong>Quoting Juraj Pol\u00e1\u010dek:<\/strong><br \/><br \/> &quot; <em>The Russian media houses RT and Sputnik are indeed a tool of Russian propaganda. Just as Voice of America is a tool of American propaganda, or Deutsche Welle is a tool of German propaganda.&quot;<\/em><br \/><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220528094317\/https:\/\/zemavek.sk\/podnet-kvoli-uvadzaniu-lzivych-informacii-na-stranke-rtvs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><\/em><\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220528094317\/https:\/\/zemavek.sk\/podnet-kvoli-uvadzaniu-lzivych-informacii-na-stranke-rtvs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/zemavek.sk\/podnet-kvoli-uvadzaniu-lzivych-informacii-na-stranke-rtvs\/<\/a><\/em><br \/><br \/> Juraj Pol\u00e1\u010dek puts the Russian chauvinist hoax factory Sputnik on the same level as Deutsche Welle and Voice of America in terms of information quality. This is really too much.<br \/><br \/> Not to mention that Sputnik is an openly racist anti-Ukrainian medium, plus it spreads chauvinistic hatred towards the West, the USA, and European politicians. Full-fledged hoaxes in Sputnik are also a fairly regular practice.<br \/><br \/> In contrast, media outlets like Deutsche Welle do not engage in any propaganda or spread any hatred.<br \/><br \/><\/p><h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_positive_side_of_Mr_Polacek_he_admitted_that_Russia_spent_one_billion_EUR_on_propaganda_in_2017\"><\/span> <strong>The positive side of Mr. Pol\u00e1\u010dek: he admitted that Russia spent one billion EUR on propaganda in 2017.<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><p> All credit to Mr. Pol\u00e1\u010dek for indirectly apologizing for his criticism of RTVS in the lower part of the article, thus admitting that the Russian side spends approximately 1 billion euros on propaganda in Europe.<br \/><br \/> <strong>In conclusion,<\/strong> the reality and the fact is that the Russian government (=Putin) always puts propaganda first. People in Russia can starve, but incredible amounts of money will always go to propaganda. This is confirmed by one of the greatest experts on Russian propaganda, a Russian living in Great Britain, Peter Pomerantsev, and other experts on Russia. People will not voluntarily spread propaganda that is not based on truth against their own conscience unless you bribe them with insane amounts of money. Russian propaganda can curse Soros a million times for being a demon, but I&#39;m afraid that even Soros&#39;s foundation doesn&#39;t bribe NGOs with such insane amounts of money.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All credit to Mr. Pol\u00e1\u010dek for indirectly apologizing for his criticism of RTVS in the lower part of the article, thus admitting that the Russian side spends approximately 1 billion euros on propaganda in Europe.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}