Putin's absurd propaganda: Scholz like Hitler - USA dope Ukrainians to "monsters"
Created: 07/21/2022, 12:16 p.m
By: Andreas Schmid
The Russian state television channel Rossiya 1. Most recently it was about Olaf Scholz: "Does he look like Hitler?
In any case.
All he needs is his mustache.” © Screenshot Youtube
The Ukraine war is also considered an information war.
The Russian media are fully on the Kremlin line - with sometimes adventurous false reports.
MOSCOW - Reporters Without Borders' press freedom ranking ranks Russia 155th, between Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.
"There is practically no freedom of the media anymore," the NGO judged about reporting in the largest country on earth.
The population receives information primarily from state-controlled television.
There are hardly any independent newspapers, and there is a risk of (online) censorship due to vaguely formulated anti-extremism laws.
The media often serves Kremlin propaganda, especially in the Ukraine war.
However, the image of the “evil West” conveyed in the Russian media is sometimes quite adventurous.
An overview of some of the most abstruse reports:
Russia propaganda: US to turn Ukrainians into "monsters" in "secret experiments".
The Russian daily newspaper
Kommersant
reports on US biolaboratories on Ukrainian territory.
There, Ukrainian soldiers would be put on performance-enhancing drugs for military purposes.
Blood analyzes of Ukrainian army personnel have shown that they were subjected to "secret experiments" that turned them into "the most cruel monsters".
Kommersant
is owned by Alisher Usmanov, a friend of Putin.
At its core, the narrative of dangerous US biolabs in Ukraine is not new.
Ned Price, spokesman for the US State Department, said: "The Kremlin is deliberately misrepresenting that the United States and Ukraine are using chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine."
White House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted that "Chinese officials are repeating these conspiracy theories."
Russia propaganda: Olaf Scholz is said to be the grandson of an SS general - "like Hitler"
The popular news program
Vesti Nedeli
("News of the Week") recently highlighted Olaf Scholz's family album.
The bottom line: the German Chancellor is like Adolf Hitler.
"Does he look like Hitler?
In any case.
The only thing missing is his mustache.” In addition, the family of the SPD politician has a Nazi past.
“His grandfather was a senior SS general who fought twice against Russia.
He was personally involved in the murder of Jews in Poland and Ukraine.”
Russian propagandists like to claim that Western politicians have family ties to high-ranking Nazi figures.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach also had to put up with these stories.
Scholz' alleged Nazi grandfather is about SS General Friedrich von Scholz.
The press and information office of the federal government denies the allegation.
General von Scholz had no children, as a look at the archive showed.
Scholz writes on his website: "My grandfather was a railway worker, my parents worked in the textile industry."
Russia propaganda: Danes are said to rape turtles in extra brothels
The state TV channel Russia 1 was recently about the sexual preferences of the EU population.
Humans could have sex with animals - legally.
"They published a brothel for zoophiles," said the moderator.
"Can you imagine that?
For zoophiles in Denmark.
It's totally legal.
You can go there and, I don't know, rape a turtle.
Such idiots, that's really true.” This message was based on an article from a satirical website.
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In the article, which the TV station Arte translated into German, the TV station also attacks Germany.
The Federal Republic has a big problem with pedophiles.
“The Germans started this program.
You can go to a kindergarten and touch the children.” A dialogue then follows between the moderator duo.
“Are pedophiles now becoming a new sexual minority?” “What next?
Will you start forgiving serial killers?”.
Russia propaganda: Zelenskyj in the sights of state television
Russian political programs regularly target Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
It was said, for example, that Selenskyj left the country in the middle of the war and fled to Poland.
Also to be heard: Selenskyj is a puppet of the West, which lets its policies be dictated primarily by the USA and, as a former actor, plays the role of the head of state.
There were reports on Rossiya 1 that the President of Ukraine was directing “the destruction of Ukrainian soldiers” from the US Embassy.
He is also addicted to drugs.
A video recorded by Zelenskyj himself should prove this.
In one of his regular speeches, "white powder" can be seen on the table.
Cocaine?
Not at all, as the Austrian fact-checking portal
Mimikama
judges.
"Definitely a table ornament."
Russia propaganda: “denazification” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine
Demands and narratives from the Kremlin are also repeatedly picked up on Russian television.
Ukraine must be "demilitarized" and "denazified".
Also, Russian state media have backed the Kremlin's claim that Russia is not attacking civilian targets.
However, Amnesty International has "documented several attacks by the Russian army on civilian areas in Ukraine".
The United Nations reported several war crimes.
According to the UN Human Rights Office, Russian forces have indiscriminately shelled and bombed inhabited areas, killing civilians and attacking hospitals, schools and other civilian infrastructure.
False reports also play a major role on the Internet.
Fake pictures or videos that appear authentic at first glance regularly appear.
The colleagues from
Buzzfeed News
took a closer look at some examples: In the fake news ticker, they exposed false Russian reports.
Russia also uses the term “fake news”, but not in reference to itself.
Anyone who allegedly spreads “fake news” is severely punished in Russia.
The Kremlin enacted another vague law during the war, adding to the list of "fake news."
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