ABSTRACT
There are many recent researches about the strategy and the tactics of the fake news interference inspired by Russians in the Western politics and media environment, which present them as a tool of a ‘hybrid war’ against the West; something invented and promoted specifically to undermine the enemy. The fake news Moscow’s agents are spreading in the West is not a byproduct of Putin’s regime; rather, it is the main staple Russia produces and consumes. The main target of the faked picture is not the Westerners, but Russians themselves, even the same members of the power system that produces it. The truth in the Soviet Union was something of a privilege, reserved to the happy few: even Mikhail Gorbachev was absolutely convinced that the Katyn massacre was perpetrated by the Nazis, until his chief of staff Valery Boldin showed him the top secret file.
