Hey congrats to you. Writer gotta eat. Nice click bait. I thought it might lead to something, as someone who has lived under Russian propaganda for 15 years, but you get both western and Russian propaganda wrong.

You are correct that Russian propaganda is low theater. You are also correct that Russians know they live in a sea of lies but not in the way that you think. Indeed that is the whole purpose of Russian propaganda. Western government propaganda is one story and stick to it no matter what, make it as air tight as possible but if it starts to be full of holes- hold the line and don't deviate.

Russian propaganda throws up a new theory every day, even several times a day, by the same officials. The Russians understand perfectly the chocolate rations analogy of Orwell in 1984. Every theory thrown up is weak and easy to disprove on its own but before you can, a new theory has taken its place. Eventually there are hundreds or even thousands of theories so the Narod( Russian citizenry) just shrugs their shoulders and says the truth can't be known and/or stop trying to find it.

I disagree with many of the assertions in the article but others have said their piece on those. As someone who speaks Russian and lived in Russia for 7 years and lived in a country 20% occupied by Russia for another 6 plus another year in another country of the the former Soviet Union - I could go on a long winded explanation why you're wrong but, for now, the issue of propaganda suffices.