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Putin's influencers are also based in Germany: "Russia had no other choice"

2022-04-23T07:14:59.059Z


Putin's influencers are also based in Germany: "Russia had no other choice" Created: 04/23/2022, 09:01 By: Catherine Brown Solidarity with Russia and aggressor Vladimir Putin: pro-Russian demonstration in Stuttgart © Christoph Schmidt/dpa Since the start of the Ukraine war, people in Germany have been protesting regularly to show their solidarity with Putin. You can also find their propaganda


Putin's influencers are also based in Germany: "Russia had no other choice"

Created: 04/23/2022, 09:01

By: Catherine Brown

Solidarity with Russia and aggressor Vladimir Putin: pro-Russian demonstration in Stuttgart © Christoph Schmidt/dpa

Since the start of the Ukraine war, people in Germany have been protesting regularly to show their solidarity with Putin.

You can also find their propaganda on the German-speaking internet.

Munich – The camera starts as an elderly man crawls through the rubble of a destroyed building.

He wears a full beard and hat, occasionally he looks into the lens for a moment, he's missing a few teeth.

A splint is taped to his left leg.

Short cut.

Then two soldiers in Russian uniforms help him up.

They prop him up to a first aid kit, give him an injection in his thigh, then the sequence ends.


The video was shot by journalists from the

Russia Today (RT) channel

– In Germany, the Russian propaganda station has been banned for weeks.

However, people in Germany can also easily access the content of RT online.

“The exhausted old man is literally crawling out of the territory of the Azov nationalists in Mariupol,” writes a user of the Russian social network Pikabu in Russian.

The injured man told RT journalists in an interview that a Ukrainian sniper shot him in the leg.

"Now the bones are sticking out of an open wound the size of a tangerine, and the wound is infected and suppurating," the user writes.

The video is clicked more than 62,000 times.

"No one has done more to discredit the Ukrainian army than the Ukrainian army itself," commented another user.

War in Ukraine: war of aggression justified - "People don't want to believe it"

Russia's troops as war heroes: since the attack on Ukraine, this portrayal has been found again and again on social media - and not just on Russian-language portals.

"Russian troops have liberated Mariupol," a woman posted on the video portal TikTok on Thursday - just a few hours after Putin had declared the port city conquered.

There are 6.1 million posts on TikTok under the hashtag #istandwithrussia (I stand with Russia).


"People don't want to believe it," says a Russian-German named Rene R. in a video, "but the whole world has already decided against Europe and the United States."

Although Putin is not a "flawless democrat", he has tried "like a surgeon with a dissecting knife" to avoid civilian victims "as much as possible".

The war is dividing the Russian community: more than two million Russian-speaking people live in Germany, most of them late resettlers.

Many of them condemn the attack on Ukraine.

But the group of Putin supporters is usually louder: In the past few weeks, hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets in several German cities to wave Soviet flags and banned symbols such as the "Z" - and to show that they are in the at war with Russia.

It is striking that many of the people who spread Russian propaganda online also share typical lateral thinker content.

"Before which court are Lauterbach and Spahn brought," asks Rene R. in one of his TikTok videos, "and the people who were involved in the mask requirement?"

Putin and the Ukraine war: "Russia had no other choice"

The user Matthias R. also announces both pro-Russian motorcades and lateral thinkers on VKontakte (vk), the most popular Russian social media platform.

In his profile, he warns of alleged "gene modifications" and "infectious diseases" that are supposed to be triggered by corona vaccinations.

He declined a conversation with our newspaper because "you can no longer trust journalists".


Elisabeth F. also shares Russian propaganda and reports about possible side effects of the corona vaccines on her vk account.

In her opinion, the "mass media" are "the mouthpiece" of German politics - and this, in turn, "has long since arrived at fascism and indoctrinates our people worse than Hitler," she posts.

She tells our newspaper that she has been dealing intensively with the events in Donbass since 2014.

"I saw the suffering of these people and also what the fascist Azov regiment did," she says.

"Russia had no choice but to strike first and it was high time."

Ukraine war: “Without exception, our authors are extremists”

This Russian narrative can now also be found in German-language news sites.

The Austrian portal

report24.news

, for example, writes: "Anyone who tries to report a neutral position on what is happening on Ukrainian territory or to shed light on the Russian view of things must expect to be murdered." create the western news, they say.

There are also reports on “climate maniacs” who want to blow up the moon and on travel tips to Tanzania – because there you can “live without a mask and at ease”.

The editors write on their own portal: "Without exception, our authors are extremists."

Source: merkur

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