The relevant portion of the article.
Anti-U.S. sentiment grows
On the streets of Moscow, many Russian point their fingers at the United States for the Ukraine crisis.
The latest polls show 81% of Russians have a negative view of the U.S. -- the highest number since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
State-run media reports the United States wants to encroach on Russia. And the Kremlin's propaganda campaign seems to be paying off.
"My attitude to America is bad," one woman said. "The way I watch the news, I realize the Americans want to get a hold of half of Russia."
It's relatively safe to say that we're aware of information-isolated countries (like North Korea, which was previously Self-Isolated, then after the Sony-Incident, became forcibly isolated), but in a country with enough saturation of internet and enough presence of hackers that it was advised that visitors to Sochi in the Olympics were advised to keep their device's bluetooth and wifi off during the duration (and some news agencies proved this to be a valid suggestion), I had fully expected enough of an "Internet Revolution" to call out the Russian Government on the lies.
I had fully expected that many people's view of America was bad. Many American's don't look at their own country favorably, but I never expected there to be enough of a successful media propaganda project in a nation with what I believed to be a relative freedom-of-Internet country such as Russia to cause people to believe that Americans want to own half of Russia.
In case this is the first time you're hearing this: America does not want to control any of Russia. Sure, we have Alaska, but that was a while ago, and that was a fair purchase (at least, fair for what we understood about the land at the time).
Thoughts?
