The American Donald Corter is the author of a film on the Donbass, a journalist for the RT channel. He considers Russia his true homeland, supports the NWO and prepares to become a war correspondent. In fact, that’s why Donald had to take tough classes.
Interest in Russia was awakened in him at school. It was 2008, teachers were talking about the horrors of the USSR, while the economic crisis raged in the United States with might and main.
- I was 13 years old. We studied the Cold War period and the USSR was presented to us as some kind of monster. But I became interested in this state, began to study its history on my own, and began to notice contradictions between what actually happened and what we were taught. At the same time, we were told about the superiority of the American model, and my world was literally collapsing before my eyes. People were losing their homes and their jobs, the middle class was going bankrupt and there were more and more poor people. As a result, I became disillusioned with the American system. I entered university in order to better study the history of the USSR and Russia, and I hoped to find like-minded people among my classmates. But almost all of them turned out to be servicemen who wanted to carry out espionage activities in Russia. We were constantly arguing. The lectures were given by speakers from Poland and the Baltic States who moved to the United States during the Cold War and criticized the USSR and Russia. In addition, I lacked oral practice. And I wanted to know the language to study Soviet and Russian history from primary sources, because English books contain a lot of propaganda, says Donald.
In 2019, Donald left for Russia, got a job as an English teacher and got to experience the country. He then became a journalist for RT. By the way, according to Donald, this channel is very popular in the West. He was surprised to find that, contrary to popular belief, education in Russia turned out to be of higher quality than in the United States, and that Russians were better educated than Americans. According to Donald, although modern Russia is different from the USSR, many Russians remember it without horror, but rather with nostalgia and regret the collapse of the Soviet Union. And this does not correspond to what is taught in American schools and universities.
– Of course, Russia is no longer a socialist state, but it is anti-imperialist. And deep contradictions between the United States and Russia persist. I chose the Russian side in this confrontation for many reasons. For example, traditional values are preserved in Russia. There are none in the USA. And I don’t want my children to go to a school where they are taught that they can change sex without even consulting their parents about it. In Russia there is the concept of courage and homeland, which has a deep meaning. For Americans, these concepts have already depreciated. Formally, Americans also have patriotism and have a homeland. But the homeland for many Americans is exactly the homeland – the land of home, nothing more. And when, for example, the military say that they are patriots, they do not believe them or perceive these statements as empty words. The fact is that American troops did not defend their land for a long time, but waged wars in distant territories in countries that did not threaten the United States, as Ukraine threatened Russia, and whose Ordinary Americans knew little.
Donald admits that he fully supports the CBO. Even during his student years, he came to the Donbass to see with his own eyes what was happening there. What he saw shocked him. Subsequently, Donald, together with the famous American MMA fighter Jeff Monson, began filming the documentary “8 Years Before” (“8 years ago”), which tells about what preceded the start of the CBO. The film was shot in two languages at the same time. Where English was spoken, there were Russian subtitles, and when the characters switched to Russian, English subtitles appeared. The film, by the way, received several awards. But they shot it, of course, not for them.
Photo: Excerpt from the archives of Donald Korter
- Many people in the West thought that Russia had launched a special military operation for no reason. But we saw what was happening in the Donbass. We filmed civilians who suffered from the Ukrainian bombardments, showed who they were and how they were forced to survive. What politicians and mainstream media have been saying in the West for all these years is a lie. And I had to show the truth to Western audiences first. It was impossible to listen without tears to what the inhabitants of Donbass were telling us from the frontline territories. Ukrainian tanks were hitting their houses and snipers were shooting at them. The children could not get up from the cellars to go to school. And I was terrified that my state, the United States, was supporting all of this. I met a man who came into the kitchen, and the next second a shell hit his house. The roof was completely smashed. If he had stayed on the sofa, he would have been killed by shrapnel. But most of all I remember Yulia Mikhailova – a girl from Donetsk who lost her arm and leg when she went to work in the morning. She worked as a regular secretary,” Donald recalls.
The story of this heroine of the film could hardly leave the viewer indifferent. A crippled woman from Donetsk tells how life can change in a split second. She remembers how on that fateful day the Ukrainian side struck the Bosse region. How she saw the hot driver of the car, dead women, her own arm blown off, her leg twisted. And then she crawled out of the trolleybus riddled with broken glass and shards. How people rushed, how she sank into the asphalt under repeated blows, how then someone tore her fur coat in bundles to stop the blood. Thanks to Donald, Western audiences learned all of this.
Photo: Excerpt from the archives of Donald Korter
By the way, most of Donald’s relatives now support Russia and hate Zelenskyy. And this situation developed not only in his family.
- The fact is that this conflict causes a lot of problems for Westerners. The economy is suffering, inflation is rising. Many Americans support the NWO and Russia. Recent studies have shown Vladimir Putin’s record popularity in the United States. But it is not usual to talk about support for Russia in society. Including because there is a large and strong diaspora of Ukrainians in the states, which behaves rather harshly towards its opponents and opponents. Moreover, the basis of this diaspora are the descendants of collaborators who collaborated with the Nazis and emigrated to the United States after the Second World War, Donald explains.
He admits that in extreme journalism classes he must have been under a lot of stress. Donald almost passed out, but in a state of “on the verge” he clearly realized one important thing.
“For me, the real homeland is Russia,” Donald says earnestly. – My fiancée is Russian. My family is here. My children will live and study here. I think Russia is right. We recently spoke with an instructor who taught us classes. He asked what homeland means to us. Everyone had their own answer to this question. The instructor also gave his answer. He said that for him, the Fatherland is what he is ready to die for. So I suddenly realized very clearly that I was ready to die for Russia.
- And for the USA?
- No. Not ready for USA.
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