A video spread in social networks in which the girl reads a poem with calls to kill the Nazis. Many users perceived this video as an element of Russian propaganda and instilling in children hatred for Ukrainians. We checked whether this is so.

Video The girls reading the poem about the Nazis appeared in several Ukrainian media. "Reviewer"Wrote in the headline:" In Russia, they began to use children to agitize the murder: the girl was forced to read the poem "Kill him". " Edition UAPORTAL It wrote: "A little Russian woman recites that nothing will save the homeland, if not the invaders (Russian military. - Approx. Ed.)." The same video with similar comments appeared in many Ukrainian Telegramchannelsincluding in channel Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko.

Neither Ukrainians nor Russians are mentioned in the poem. Nevertheless, the idea that Russia is waging a war with Ukrainian Nazis in Ukraine is rooted in Russian society And media sphere. Therefore, many perceived these lines of the poem as a call for hostility with Ukrainians:

“If you are a fascist with a gun
Do not want to give forever
The house where you lived, wife and mother,
Everything that we call the homeland -
 
Know: no one will save her,
If you do not save her;
Know: no one will kill him,
If you don't kill him.
 
So kill the fascist, so that he,
And not you lay on earth,
Not in your home to be a groan
And in his dead he stood.
 
Let it be not yours from
And his mother, his mother
Not yours, but his family
Let him wait in vain.
 
So kill at least one!
So kill him soon!
How many times will you see him
So many times and kill him! "

These lines are an excerpt from the poem of the Soviet writer and poet Konstantin Simonova. Throughout the Great Patriotic War, Simonov worked as a military correspondent, so a significant part of his work is dedicated to the war. The poem “If your house is dear to you”, which sounds in the video, Simonov wrote at the height of the war in 1942. Initially poem appeared in the newspaper "Red Star" called "Kill him!" In 1966, “political correct” edits were included in the poem to publish Simonov’s works in the full works of Simonov. Instead of "killing his", the work became name On the first line: "If your house is dear to you." Two stanzas about the school teacher hung by the Germans were also removed. The word "German" was replaced by "fascist".

As a rule, supporters of Russian “special operations” in Ukraine use the term ”Nazis"Or" neo -Nazis "against Ukrainians, and not"Nazis". Nevertheless, many decided that the call to kill the Nazis, who sounded from the lips of the girl, was directed precisely against the Ukrainians.

In fact, this video appeared long before the start of the war in Ukraine. In 2019, YouTube user Natalya Gruzenko downloaded video his nine -year -old daughter Sophia, who is engaged in acting and Filmed In the cinema. Apparently, the YouTube channel serves as an acting portfolio: there Sophia's mother publishes videoWhere the girl reads on the camera of the poem by Eduard Asadov, Bella Akhmadulina, Konstantin Simonov and other poets, including on a military theme. The poem “Kill him” is only one of many on this channel and in supply and entourage is no different from others.

*Source: Instagram Gruzenko_Sofia_actress*

So, we can conclude that this video is not related to either Ukraine or military propaganda. Simonov wrote his poem directly about German soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. And the girl Sophia read his excerpt on the camera to demonstrate acting, and not for the purposes of anti -Ukrainian propaganda.

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