Top-3 Fakes of the Week about Ukraine Fake #1: the Azov regiment bathed in an ice-hole in the form of swastika A fake photo, initially published in a blog of a user gmorder on January 19, is being actively spread around social networks. Although the author of this post tagged it as “humor” and wrote in comments that this was a photoshopped image, his readers took the photo seriously and started to disseminate it through social networks. Even the odious ex-member of the Ukrainian Parliament Vadim Kolesnichenko posted it on his Facebook account like a true photo of the Azov regiment. In fact, this photo is truly photoshoped. The original was taken from an article dated January 16, 2014. The photo was made in Tula, Russia. The real photos of Azov soldiers bathing in an ice hole look like this: Fake #2: President of Ukraine was booed and whistled by students in Zurich On January 20, Russian TV channels broadcast a video of the meeting of the Ukrainian President with students in Zurich and commented that during the lecture Petro Poroshenko had been “booed and whistled and his speech had been interrupted several times by raised voices of the audience”. On the video a girl shouts “I do not want to listen to this man who was killing children” and pro-Kremlin channels LifeNews and Russia 24 broadcast this version of the event. In fact, on the contrary, it was the girl who was whistled. And here is the episode (watch 0:40 of the video) which was not showed by Russian mass media: the girl was hissed away, she went out of the auditorium and at parting swore dirtily in Russian. The President of Ukraine replied to this in English: “If anybody understands what she said, this is exactly the cultural level of this lady” Then President Poroshenkos speech was indeed interrupted – by applause! The President of Ukraine said “Glory to Ukraine” and the audience burst into applause. But, of course, Russian channels did not broadcast this. Fake #3: Moscow photo dated 2009 presented as the one from a peace meeting in Artemivsk in 2015 A fake photo of people marching with a slogan “Death to Russian scums!!! More killings” is being spread around social networks. The photo has the following caption: “While people are dying as the result of missile and air strikes in Donbas, “peace” marches are held in Kyiv and Artemivsk…”. Indeed, on January 18, meetings and rallies in support of peace in Donbas were held in Ukrainian cities and towns. This photo, however, has nothing to do with them. It is a fake that repeatedly appeared in the Network as a “proof of fascist atrocities” in Ukraine. In fact, the photo shows the march in Moscow on February 16, 2009 against political assassinations, in memory of a layer Stanislav Markielov and a journalist Anastasiya Baburova, killed on January 19, 2009. The slogan on the photo was forged in Photoshop. The real photo has the following slogan: “Your silence is a justification of killings”. And creators of the fake even did not bother to remove a photo of Baburova with an inscription “She died for freedom of Russia”. The video, which freeze-frame was used to create this sham image, is published on the site Grani-TV. Original link: stopfake.org/
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:42:33 +0000
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