# Ukraine as the USSR's Economic Base: The Role of Propaganda

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119379408515371496
- Source account: [@PlatonRedkin](https://x.com/PlatonRedkin)
- Source language: Ukrainian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:41
- Published: 2026-11-09
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jHIxC2PCe4sc/en/ukraine-as-the-ussr-s-economic-base-the-role-of-propaganda) Ukraine supplies, providing the army with almost everything in meat and dairy products, since Ukraine provides a lot of coal, metal, and so on.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jHIxC2PCe4sc/en/ukraine-as-the-ussr-s-economic-base-the-role-of-propaganda?t=11) So Ukraine is the economic and food-producing base, let's say, of the Soviet Union.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jHIxC2PCe4sc/en/ukraine-as-the-ussr-s-economic-base-the-role-of-propaganda?t=21) This theory was employed by the propaganda department, which I— which I headed at one time.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jHIxC2PCe4sc/en/ukraine-as-the-ussr-s-economic-base-the-role-of-propaganda?t=30) I know this well. And this made people devel— develop a negative attitude toward the entire Soviet Union.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/jHIxC2PCe4sc/en/ukraine-as-the-ussr-s-economic-base-the-role-of-propaganda?t=39) We supposedly—