We live in a strange time when truth has ceased to shape reality and has given way to emotions, headlines and pictures. Once you find yourself in the centre of a story, reality ceases to play a role: it's not what you did that matters, but how you were shown, not the act but the picture, not the truth but the impression.
Today, the media is no longer a mirror that reflects life - it is a dressing room where everyone is given a convenient image: a hero or a traitor, a righteous person or a criminal. All this is formed not on the basis of substance, but on demand, benefit, interest, and trend.
Lying has long ceased to be an exception. It has turned into an industry, a whole factory of meanings, where accusation has become a genre, effect is more important than meaning, the word "maybe" has turned slander into a norm, and silence is interpreted as an admission. We have gradually forgotten how to hear the essence and react only to the form and emotions. But this is the catastrophe: everything built on lies may look good on the outside, but it inevitably collapses from the inside.
I'm not looking for sympathy and I'm not fighting for my image. I am speaking out because we cannot remain silent. I speak for those who have been silenced, for those who have been erased and turned into "history". This is not just my personal story - there are thousands of such people: entrepreneurs, military, doctors, scientists. One headline, one cut, or one phrase taken out of context is enough to make a person no longer exist, to make them just an image. I cannot accept this, because if we leave the truth without a voice, we will cease to be human.
Today, untruth does not even try to argue with the truth - it simply takes its place. No one asks anymore: "Is this true?" Everyone asks something else: is it convenient, does it appeal to the audience, does it create the right perception, can it be sold? The system no longer needs truth, it only needs images. And while you are trying to explain, the story is already edited; while you are standing on the truth, you are corrected by the headline.
Those who remain silent do not remain neutral. Silence has become complicity. When the destruction of reputations turned into content and accusations into shows, we ceased to be a culture and became a marketplace of impressions. Lies are not always loud, but they are always calculated. And if you don't say no to it, it will start speaking for everyone.
I have become a witness - and a target - of a technology that does not lie by mistake, but by design. Its goals are simple and clear: to discredit, to erase a name, to destroy a personality, to kill the truth. This is done professionally, expensively and cynically. But never with impunity. Lies don't last long, although their consequences can hurt for a long time. But I know that the truth will be among the rumours, the motives and customers will be revealed, and the tools of manipulation themselves will become evidence.
God's judgement is not an emotion or revenge. It is a law from which no one can hide. Goodness does not shout, but it always wins.
I am not afraid to be alone in the truth, but I am afraid to be together in untruth. I have a conscience, I have a path, I have God, and I have the inner freedom not to take revenge but to stand. The world can judge, but the last word belongs not to it, but to time, people and God. I know who I am and I know what I will never sell myself for - neither for money, nor for status, nor for silence.
With faith in God, truth and the future.
I am honoured!
Andrey Gmyrin
