In his essay, journalist Oleh Cheslavskyi demonstrates how critical thinking can manifest itself through a vivid historical analogy.

In his quarter century in power, Vladimir Putin has ensured that Russia has become a country of lonely and disconnected people.

The essay by Yuriy Khristensen (analyst of the media center of the Odessa Political Platform) is not only a sample of brilliant publicism, but also a living example of critical thinking. Its author is from Ukraine, so the words “our”, “we” refer to Ukrainians. The source of the text is Echo, the original is the Facebook page of Yuriy Khristensen.

More than 100 years ago, the British Lord Arthur Ponsonby, while researching the First World War, wrote the book “Falsehood in War-Time” [1]. Already in our time, Belgian Anna Morelli actualized this work and identified 10 main principles of military propaganda [2].