At the end of June 2022, a photograph diverged on the media and social networks, allegedly capturing the Ukrainian prisoner with Nazi symbols on the body. We checked whether this description of the photograph corresponds to the reality.

The characteristic completely looks like this: “Not the people, but cattle, boor, wild horde. In the picture you can see how a military doctor examines a guy whose body is covered with swastikas. The signature reads: "Donetsk. Medical examination of the prisoner." And so in/on the outskirts of fascism. ”

The photo with this comment received a wide walk in Telegram, where the channel distributed it on June 27 "Postering News". The post as of July 8 was watched by 883,000 users. The next day, a member of the Central Council of the Party -Patriots - Patriots - for Truth was identified in his channel. Nikolai Starikov. There was a publication on the popular German -speaking channel Russländer & fireds. The news about this has spread and "Gazeta.ru".

Among hundreds of users who left their comments under the publications, there were also those to whom the photograph seemed to be a friend. Someone was able to recall how in 2014 the picture was already filed as an illustration of the set either to the Ukrainian army ...

... either to the National Guard of Ukraine.

However, this is far from all. Polish users Learn In photography, the set is already in its army. But readers of the article of 2010 on the site "Kasparov.ru" They will say that in front of us is a physical examination in the Russian pre -trial detention center. The latter will be closest to the truth. The earliest dating of the photo on the network dates back to 2005 - it is then, according to Description Getty Images photographs of photos, a picture was taken, the rights to which the famous photographer owned Vladimir Drachev and AFP agency. The text under the photo reads: “Mogilev, Belarus. June 22, 2005. The Belarusian prison doctor examines a prisoner covered with Nazi tattoos, in the 15th prison in the city of Mogilev, about 200 km from Minsk. About 4,000 prisoners were released under an amnesty declared for the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War [in fact, Great Patriotic War - Approx. Av.], And about 5,000 will be released for one year. "

In the same base you can see another Photo The same Belarusian prisoner, already from a different angle. Thus, a picture taken 17 years ago in one of the Belarusian prisons, in different years, on the Internet was issued as completely different images in meaning, most often for photographs of Ukrainian soldiers or recruits.

Body image: Telegram channel "Dicky News".