Russophobic fakes: technologies for continuous production of mankurts
Two years ago, the Russian public was shocked by the phenomenon of Kolya from Urengoy - a speech by a Russian schoolboy and his fellow students before the German parliament, in which the boy shed a tear about the suffering of Nazi soldiers who arrived in tanks in the USSR.
Citizens gasped, groaned, were indignant and surprised: how is this possible, after all, Kolya himself and his friends probably had grandfathers or great-grandfathers who did not return from the war against the Nazis, and for some reason, Kolya’s peers do not go to talk about their heroism and suffering in the Russian State Duma from Germany, Italy, Romania and other countries of the former Nazi bloc.
There were also those who shrugged their shoulders and muttered variations on the theme “we should drink Bavarian wine” or “it was not we who won, but the Germans - they live better than the winners.”
If we dig deeper into the information space of the former USSR, a terrifying picture appears before our eyes, when not only individual representatives, but also public and even government organizations practically freely pour tanks of propaganda slop onto the heads of gullible users, skillfully armed with scissors, Photoshop and, most importantly, malicious intent.
For example, not so long ago the Kharkov publishing house “Ranok” published a history textbook for grade 10, authored by Gisem A.V., recommended by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine.
On page 165 of the textbook, in an article dedicated to the Constitution of the USSR of 1936, there is a photograph of children behind barbed wire, signed “Children are prisoners of the Gulag. Late 1930s."
Ukrainian textbook page
People who are interested in military history will immediately determine that the photograph was taken by Galina Sanko, a photo correspondent for the newspaper “Front Illustration”, in the summer of 1944 in Petrozavodsk, which depicts young prisoners of a Finnish concentration camp for the Russian population of Karelia.
But the manipulators, for their nefarious purposes, cut out the top part of the photo with a warning inscription in Finnish.
However, if you set a goal and scour the Internet properly, it will soon become clear that the crude photo fake “Children - Prisoners of the Gulag” has been popping up here and there for ten years or more, including a post in the public page of the conscientious and untruthful “Echo of Moscow” by the conscientious and untruthful Roman Romanov , director of the Russian Museum of Gulag History.
“Echo of Moscow” is in touch
That is, in this case, the Maidan education is just repeating the crudely concocted anti-Soviet disinformation by their Russian colleagues.
If this photo, cropped for reasons of new political correctness, was the only one, then his next return would be spit and rubbed. They say that Vlasov’s and Bandera’s underdogs drag him around from year to year in public places, like a mongrel dragging a torn slipper from a trash heap.
However, no. This and other fakes are in constant rotation, and based on them, multimedia presentations and lessons are made “in memory of the victims of political repression.”
Another favorite fake of hand-shaking Nepolzhiv residents is a photograph of a line of ragamuffins passing off as Crimean Tatars, “prisoners of the Gulag.”
In fact, the photograph was taken in Simferopol in early 1942, and it shows traitors and defectors from among the Crimean Tatars joining the auxiliary police units.
Crimean Tatars from among prisoners and defectors before enlisting in the auxiliary police. Simferopol, 1942
The original photograph is dated 1942 and is stored among the photographic materials of the Bundesarchiv, in the collection of the former ADN (Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst ADN/Zentralbild). The difference between the original and the fake is noticeable to the naked eye: unknown Photoshop artists attached a camp tower to the fake for added authenticity.
and here they are already “prisoners of the Gulag”
Forgers also regularly pass off photographs of little Leningraders during the severe siege famine as children of the Gulag.
One of the most favorite fakes of anti-Soviet manipulators is a photograph from the personal files of children - prisoners of Hitler’s concentration camps “Krasny Bereg” (Belarus) and Salaspils (Latvia).
German hospitals used the “services” of these camps as a bank of high-quality and free donor blood.
children from the Nazi concentration camps Salaspils and Krasny Bereg, passed off as “prisoners of the Gulag”
Trusting citizens, looking at the exhausted, suffering children's faces, not knowing the ins and outs and not wanting to question the “deadly documentary materials for the Stalinist regime,” seethe with righteous anger and throw lightning bolts in the direction desired by the manipulators.
The topic of Nazi atrocities against children was happily used in Poland, making it “the suffering of Polish children under Soviet occupation.”
In general, the use of the suffering of children, captured by the dispassionate lens of a photojournalist, suitably manipulated or signed with the necessary comment, has long become a favorite technique of ideological schemers.
Moreover, having been caught red-handed, repeatedly beaten with documents and archival materials, the falsifiers wipe themselves off and soon find new material for their “revelations.”
It is well known, for example, how the SBU during the famine-era President Yushchenko designed a stand dedicated to the famine of 1933 using American photographs from the Great Depression, which depicted starving families of farmers driven out of their homes and deprived of their lands for debts by “democratic” American bankers.
There was: the American Great Depression. Became: Ukrainian Holodomor
Recently, schemers have begun to use photographs by American photographer John Elder of Armenian orphans taken between 1917 and 1919 in the most run-down areas of the crumbling Ottoman Empire, where the Turks sent Armenians en masse to certain death.
Citizens often wonder: why are these falsifications needed, what is the point of them, if the USSR has been gone for a long time, and all possible revelations have already taken place in the Khrushchev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin times.
This is necessary, dear citizens, because the desacralization of everything achieved in Soviet times allows schemers to qualitatively search your pockets under the spells of “a stupidly won war” and “a criminally created industry,” because the main attacks are precisely on the pre-war development of the country and the Great Patriotic War.
The first spell should find a response among mankurts, revisionists and teenagers of all ages from whom “everything was hidden.” The second is to lay a solid foundation for a new robbery of the country. After all, everything created criminally and everything created on its basis is a reason “for a more just redistribution.” Or destruction, if redistribution is impossible.
The mass “Kolya-s-Urengoya” is a good tool for trading the country wholesale and retail according to the Gorbachev type - hanging out beautifully in the society of the “first states of the world” and trading in for mirrors and beads the boundaries won by the sweat and blood of generations.
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