In the fall of 2022, Internet users distributed two covers of the satirical publication El Jueves, supposedly dedicated to the President of Ukraine and the heads of Western states. We checked the reliability of such publications.
One of the covers depicts the screen on which the video message of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin is shown - it is watched by the leaders of Western countries. Among them, for example, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky (on his left shoulder is a red bandage, apparently, referring to the symbols of the Nazi party) and US President Joe Biden (he is drawn in a diaper). Western leaders are depicted in the process of urination, pouring on the floor of the urine forms the letters OTAN - this abbreviation in Spanish Used To designate NATO. “Do not stop the macho,” says the signature for the drawing.
September 23, news about the appearance of such caricatures in El Jueves published, in particular, “Federal News Agency","Folk news","Political expert" And "Politorossia"(All of them are included in the media group" Patriot ", connected With an entrepreneur and founder PMC "Wagner" Evgeny Prigozhin). In Telegram, dozens of channels shared the image, among the largest - “Truthfulness"(1.3 million subscribers at the time of writing this analysis),"Russia now"(1.15 million)," "? Army? 18+?"(968 000),"Putin in Telegram"(885 000) and"Bullet"(803,000), as well as the channels of the media manager Tina Kandelaki (291,000) and TV presenters Ruslan Ostashko (338 000) and Artyom Sheinin (179 000). Also, this cover can be found on user pages Facebook*, Twitter, "VKontakte" Livejournal And Pikabu.
Another cover that was started to be distributed in mid -October is devoted directly to the President of Ukraine. On it, Vladimir Zelensky is depicted surrounded by rockets aimed at him, with a sticky tongue and flowing around the mouth with a white liquid. The signature in the figure reads: "Russian missile buccake" (the word "Bukkake" is happening From Japanese “spray water” and is used to designate practice in group sex, when intercourse participants ejaculate on the face or other part of the body of one of them). This picture was not massively published by the media, but it parted quite widely through social networks. She was shared, including users Telegram, Facebook, Twitter, "VKontakte", And Livejournal.
On the website of the satirical weekly represented All magazine issues for 2022. On their covers, immediately called El Jueves, the number (for example, 2.365) and the inscription "Año XLV"-"45th year [the existence of the magazine]" are indicated. On the cover with the image of Vladimir Putin and the leaders of NATO countries there is such a signature - it is claimed that this is number 2.366, there are no similar data on the cover about the “Russian missile buccake”.
Judging by the file cabinet on the publication website, in fact, number 2.366 He was dedicated The results of the extraordinary parliamentary elections in Italy shortly before this. The cover was “decorated” by the leader of the victorious right -right party of the “brothers of Italy” George Melony, who a month later He headed The government of the country. On the barcode in the lower left corner of the cover that spread in social networks, while the numbers 02365 are indicated. This corresponds to number 2.365, which I went on sale a week before the release about Meloni; In turn, its cover is devoted to the growth of electricity accounts.
Since the number from the barcode in these magazines always corresponds to the number of a particular issue, according to these data, we can also establish when, according to users of social networks, a cover about the “Russian missile Bukkake” was published. Surprisingly, in this case, the number 02365 also includes on the barcode. Recall that the release of El Jueves under number 2.365 was presented on Twitter of the magazine on September 20, while the cover dedicated to Zelensky began to circulate in social networks about three weeks later. In fact, in those days came out Special number 2.368 dedicated to the history of Spain.
The initial posts in which these two covers appear, we found in the Russian -speaking segment of Telegram. The earliest of the publications known to us about the cover with the image of Vladimir Putin and Western leaders placed In the relatively small channel of Telegraph on September 23 at 11:49 Moscow time, but the viral picture became after appearing After an hour of post in the channel "Antifishka | Operational news channel ”, which gained almost 140,000 views. In turn, the cover about the “Russian missile buccake” was the first time Published October 11 at 12:05 pm Moscow time in the Putin in Telegram channel.
In recent months, the Russian -speaking segment of the Internet has repeatedly spread drawings issued for the covers of other satirical publications. For example, starting in July, at least four covers of the famous French magazine Charlie Hebdo were published in social networks, to which its editors have nothing to do. On three of these images, the President of Ukraine was presented In the form of a dog, another author Dedicated Turning off electricity in Kyiv. In October, a picture was also replicated, hinting at the involvement of the White House in the explosions on the Northern Stream gas pipeline and supposedly decorated The cover of the American magazine MAD.
Correction of December 29, 2022: The editors of "Verified" found the Telegram channels in which the covers appeared earlier than those indicated in the original version of this analysis (it can be found by it by link), and made appropriate changes to the text.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: Twitter
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- Is it true that on the three covers of Charlie Hebdo the president of Ukraine is depicted in the form of a dog?
- Is it true that Charlie Hebdo released a number with the cover about the disconnection of electricity in Kyiv?
- Is it true that the “Non -Staff Press” in the United States pleaded guilty to the White House in explosions on the “northern stream”?
- Is Time’s cover that Vladimir Zelensky refused to use the letters V and Z real?
- Is it true that in the Spanish textbook they used a map of Ukraine, changed by the results of referenda?
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