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❗️The Embassy of Russia in South Africa has noted with bewilderment the upcoming event featuring Anne Applebaum at one of Johannesburg-based think tanks. It is common knowledge that Anne Applebaum is a US neocon propagandist and a rabid warmonger, masquerading as a historian and journalist. ❌ Her entire career is built on propagating lies and disinformation about Russia and the Islamic world (including Iran, Palestine, and Iraq) that professional scholars have debunked time and time again.   Applebaum’s work has regularly faced criticism for excessive politicisation, ideological bias, and fanatical worship of the idea of the “strategic defeat” of both Moscow and Tehran. Her books on the Soviet Union are remarkable examples of historical revisionism and pure academic fraud. Applebaum’s pronounced anti-Russian and anti-Muslim stance, that she, one might say, wears as a badge of honour, reduces complex international processes to a simplistic conflict between “good democracy” and “bad autocracy”, where Western actions are, by default, seen as righteous and morally superior. She seeks to create a simplistic worldview, where perpetual enemies become a universal explanation for all the problems Western societies encounter. ☝️ While we fully acknowledge the right of South African institutions to choose their foreign associates, without slightest of contradiction, we can say that such warmongering cheerleaders as Anne Applebaum have neither the knowledge nor the intellectual capacity to provide contribution to any meaningful discourse. #TruthMatters