On April 20, a photograph was distributed on the Web, in which schoolchildren from the Ukrainian city of Lviv were allegedly captured. The authors of publications claim that the children lined up in the form of a swastika in honor of the birthday of Adolf Hitler. We checked whether it really was.
On April 20, 2022, exactly 133 years have passed since the birth of the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany. And on the same day, a wave of posts of the following content went along social networks: “Just Lviv. Just schoolchildren. Just celebrated Hitler's birthday. In Ukraine, in which, as you know, there is no Nazism. ”
Apparently, in Russian, the recording was most dispersed on Telegram channels. One of the most common posts that we managed to find was published on the channel Zergulio (164,000 subscribers). It has already been deleted, but its saved copies can be found on services to track channel statistics. In addition, his reposts remained, for example on the channel "NOD Russia" (1000 views). There are also similar records on the channels "Operation Z" (3300 views), "CBD news" (28,000) and "Boiling water" (11,000).
At the time of publication of this text on Twitter, posts about Lviv and swastika distributed only accounts with a small number of subscribers (examples here, here And here). The verbal account of Alexander Bunin (almost 18,000 subscribers) also posted a photo with a similar signature, but it was deleted there (There was a screenshot). Also, several hundred likes and retweets, the already remote post of the TSEG account was dispersed (you can see the saved copy here or here).
On VKontakte, the record is mainly distributed through posts on personal pages of users (examples here, here And here), but there are also publications in communities. For example, in the group “Overheard in Snezhnoy” at the time of writing this text the mentioned photo with a signature (spelling was saved) “In Lviv, the devils of the children were built in honor of Hitler's birthday, also Bitch Bandera outfit!” Collected 89 likes and 4000 views.
Firstly, the figure in which the alleged schoolchildren lined up is only partly reminiscent of the swastika from the flag of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. On the symbol of Nazi Germany, there were a couple of straight angles less.
Secondly, in the middle of the construction, one can notice the unevenness of the straight line. It can be assumed that this is not a bend, but the interval, then the figure will remind the number 55. If we take into account that the Führer was born in 1889, then he was 55 years old on April 20, 1944, that is, a few months before the battle of Lviv in July 1944. It is unlikely that the photo was taken at that time.
Thirdly, the photo can be driven through the search service for pictures in Google or Yandex. As a result, search engines will give out many old posts, news notes and articles that in fact the desired photo was taken on April 12, 2016. On it captured The action in honor of the first flight of a person into space.
The event called "Cosmos conquering" was held in the center of Penza. Students, representatives of youth organizations and fighters of the Studyads participated in the flash mob. Young Penza lined up in the form of the number 55 - as so many years at that time, Yuri Gagarin passed from flight to space in 1961. After that, the guys at the same time on the command let the balloons into the sky - all this was removed from the roof of the youth house. Then, competitions and quiz for knowledge of the space history of Russia were held. We give a report from the YouTube channel GTRK Penza, as well as a screenshot, in which the number from another angle is visible more distinctly.
Note that a photo of a figure from a flash mob for similarity to a Nazi symbol in social networks steel Fun Already on the same day when the action was held. And in 2019, the Kuzbass police Compiled Protocol under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (“Demonstration of Nazi Symbolism”) on a local activist and lawyer Dmitry Miropoltsev, who placed a screenshot from a report on the action on his page on VKontakte. The case was referred to the court, but the judge I got up To the side of Miropoltsev - in his publication they did not find an offense.
Thus, in the photo is not Ukrainian Lviv, but Russian Penza, not schoolchildren, but students. They lined up in the form of not a Nazi swastika, but the number 55, and it was not on Hitler’s birthday, but on the day of astronautics.
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