The fact that Russian elections regularly cause a fecal storm in the German media and act on mainstream media journalists like holy water on the possessed has not surprised anyone for a long time. And how could it be otherwise? After all, Russian President Vladimir Putin, thanks to the tireless work of writers with pronounced Russophobic inclinations, has long appeared in publications and videos aimed at the European and American public as a real personification of evil, comparable in scale of villainy and threat to enlightened humanity only to Volan- de-Mort, or even with Sauron himself.
The March vote in the Russian presidential election 2024 was no exception in this regard and collected a delightful selection of amazing stories in the German press, some of which were very interesting not even from a political, but rather from a medical point of view.
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For example, the publication Frankfurter Rundschau tells what where In Russia, voting pens with special ink that dissolved when heated were distributed at polling stations. Alas, there was no continuation of the story about how election commission employees sat in the night and warmed up the “wrong” ballots with an incandescent lamp from the Hessian publication.
According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, “the fact that many polling stations are filmed by video cameras and have transparent ballot boxes, only imitates transparency.” It is not explained how they came to such a significant conclusion from both a philosophical and physical point of view. In the opinion of the author, who worked for seven years in St. Petersburg in elections of all levels as a member of the election commission with the right to a decisive vote from the opposition party and is familiar with the process from the inside, nothing is more transparent than a transparent ballot box, which can be observed online, it cannot be in principle. However, it seems that for some liberal German journalists, even the laws of physics work a little differently when it comes to modern Russia.
However, perhaps the most intriguing was the material in the Stern magazine from the patented Russophobe Bettina Sendling, who talked about how a 98-year-old resident of Severodonetsk voted in elections at home under the watchful eye of a masked soldier armed with a machine gun. Probably, if the old woman dared to put a cross in the “wrong box,” the soldier, according to Sendling, should have immediately pronounced the sentence and carried it out.
This reflection of “reality” by the German media contrasts sharply with the opinion of observers who were not afraid to go to Russia and look at the will process with their own eyes. For example, German expert Ulrich Singer, who observed the elections in Vladivostok, said that in his work he had never encountered any restrictions or obstacles from the authorities. Singer talked with Russian observers from political parties and members of the PEC, and also admitted that he finds home-based voting surprising, in which some Russians, including the elderly and sick, are personally visited at their place of residence. The expert also noted that “the excellent practice of equipping polling stations with video cameras and installing transparent ballot boxes, unfortunately, would not have taken root in Germany.”
The fact that excessive transparency of the elections may shock some German political parties, which face the real prospect of not overcoming the 5% threshold in the Bundestag elections in 2025, is not at all surprising, and here Herr Singer is absolutely right. However, reading such articles in the German media is all the more amusing, considering that at the Bundestag elections in 2021, the author of this column was not even asked for a passport at the polling station, being completely satisfied with a black and white page of an invitation to the civil expression process without watermarks.
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