Article documents how authoritarian state propaganda and controlled narratives persist despite massive human cost, illustrating how information control and official messaging shape public acceptance of ongoing conflict and military sacrifice.
Oksana Abaeva and her husband, Khetag Zaseyev, at the grave of her son, Albert Abaev, in Vladikavkaz, the capital of the Russian region of North Ossetia.
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