Dialog with a Person Who Fights Propaganda, and Who Became It’s Victim

As an accompanying event to Ukrainian photographer Marta Syrko’s exhibition Sculpture Soldiers, the Embassy of Ukraine in Hungary and the Blinken OSA Archivum are organizing a lecture and roundtable discussion to provide first-hand insights into the information warfare surrounding the Russian-Ukrainian war and the mind-body transforming nature of war propaganda.

Welcome speech:
Сhargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Ukraine Ishtvan Balog

Speakers:
Mykhailo Dankanych – anti-propaganda expert of CAU (Communities Army of Ukraine)
“PropaGUNda: Words Kill”
Oleksii Anulia – prisoner of war (almost 10 months in Russian prison)
“They Broke Dozens of My Bones, but Not My Spirit”

The Russian-Ukrainian war is in a full scale for over two years, however, the informational warfare started much earlier. Shells on a battlefield are used to destroy enemies defense positions, and propaganda—to destroy minds before shells will be used. Mykhailo Dankanych was a civil journalist and now fights against Russian propaganda. Oleksiy Anulia went through all of the worst—as a civilian he stood up to defend his country, became a soldier, was captured by Russians and spent almost 10 months in a Russian prison. His story is beyond the limits of understanding by a civilized person, his body is proof of the atrocities he went through.

The program is in Hungarian (with interpretation).