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Moscow's circus teaches children to love war - Break the Fake - TVP WORLD
At the Moscow Stat Circus, acrobats in Soviet uniforms fip through the air to military marches, while children cheer as an armored vehicle drives into the arena. This is not a perfomance – it's propaganda dressed as entertainment. In today's episode of Break The Fake, Benjamin Lee looks at how the Kremlin has turned the circus – once a place of laughter – into a training ground for patriotism and fear. Russia's “patriotic circus” reveals how far propaganda can go, using spectacle, nostalgia, and manipulation to make war look glorious.