On the eve of May 9, many Russian media and Telegram channels surprised their readers with news: supposedly the Soviet banner of victory again established over the Reichstag building in the capital of Germany. There are also several photos and videos that we checked for authenticity.
May 8, 1945 at 23:01 in the Middle European time (May 9 at 01:01 Moscow time) Entered Due to the surrender of Nazi Germany. After 78 years, on the morning of May 8, 2023, there were reports on the network that the Banner of Victory was again fluttering over the Reichstag building in the center of the German capital. As they write in numerous Russian-speaking Telegram channels, the news about this appeared in German social networks. The evidence was four pictures and three videos on which you can really see the Soviet banner, as if fixed on the roof of the Reichstag. Moreover, against the background of video recordings, German speech with an accent is heard. For example, on one of them a sunbeam speaks: “Oh, have you seen it? This is a banner of victory. Yes, for sure, in the center of Berlin. " In the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets" WroteNumerous tourists are also divided by photographs and videos. In some publications It is saidthat, according to witnesses, the banner was established by unknown activists, and somewhere Approvedthat he was hung by the German authorities themselves.
In general, in Runet the news received phenomenal lighting. So, according to the service TGSTAT, Only in Telegram, the overall coverage of posts about the Victory Bank of Victory, who again appeared on the Reichstag, amounted to more than 10 million views. About the news wrote channels "Mayor Sobyanin"(749,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Live broadcast"(672 000), Colonelcassad (396,000), "Solovyov"(337 000),"Putin in Telegram"(272 000),"Pool N3"(227 000),"KB"(227 000),"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(220,000),"Rhymes and Panchi"(193 000),"Uncle Glory"(166 000),"The first folk"(159 000), Voblya (157 000), "Bullet"(153,000),"Zlaya Pruf"(137 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(134,000),"Ostashko! Important"(127 000) and"Ivan Utenkov"(112 000). Among the media, publications were noted "REN - TV" NTV, "Ukraine.ru" RIA Fan, "Russia 1" URA.RU, "Lente.ru" PostNews, "Moscow 24","Tsargrad","Arguments and facts", As well News.ru (There they published an interview with a political scientist, according to whom tourists from Russia could establish the banner). In addition, the news scattered widely on VKontakte (examples here, here And here).
“Verified” carefully studied the dispersed photographs and videos, as well as the ways of their distribution and came to the conclusion that on May 8, 2023 there was no victory over the Reichstag building, which several factors indicate.
In the Russian media and social networks, it is argued that the pictures and notes were taken by tourists and residents of Berlin, who published them on their social networks. However, we checked hundreds of posts for this month on Instagram* with various variations of the hash and geotags related to the Reichstag, and did not find any original foreign publications on the hooking of the Soviet banner. Moreover, on other platforms and sites, we also did not manage to find any evidence of eyewitnesses or news notes of the German media about this resonance event. Of course, a certain number of publications on English, German And others There are still languages, but everything that we found appeared on the network later Russian -speaking, while often it is either publications from accounts, affiliated with Russia, or with link on Russian Resources, or Reprints Russian media. The earliest Russian -speaking publication of those that we managed to track appeared In the Telegram channel “Russia now” (332,000 views) at 10:26 Moscow time, but not all viral photos and videos are posted in it. "Checked" repeatedly Catch This channel on distribution disinformation And Fakes.
It was also “verified” drew attention to the fact that in some pictures in the background, puddles, cloudy weather and conducted construction work using an excavator are visible. We could not find anything similar to the photo for May, but a similar situation and weather conditions observed Around mid -April.
However, the most strange detail lies in the banner itself, or rather, in the location of the sickle and hammer. Banner of Victory - Russian state relicwhich Represents The assault flag of the 150th order of the Kutuzov II degree of the Idric rifle division, hoisted over the Reichstag building on May 1, 1945. On it is a hammer directed towards the flagpole. In viral videos and photos, you can see the standard direction of the hammer, however, on some materials, the hammer head is directed away from the flagpole. It turns out that at least two different banks should have fluttered over the Reichstag building - with the correct arrangement of a sickle and a hammer and with the wrong one, but there is not a single message about the second Soviet flag.
Later May 8, our conclusions confirmed several resources at once. Firstly, during the day the online publication "Polygon. Media" reportedWhat contacted representatives of the Bundestag, who called the bondage of the banner on May 8, 2023 fake. “There has never been such a thing in the German Bundestag,” the press service said in the response.
Later, a refutation of viral publications about the Victory Bank raised over the Reichstag appeared On the website of the Russian State Information Agency - RIA Novosti. There they also published the response of the representative of the press service of the German parliament: “No, this is not true. We have three German flags and one EU flag on the Reichstag. ” The same answer She shared The Moscow Komsomolets newspaper, but at the same time added: “As it turned out, these [viral] cadres were not related to today.” (Note that some other The media also released refutations.) The absence of the Banner of Victory and the presence of the FRG and the EU flags was confirmed by the RIA Novosti correspondent, who also noted that there are several inconsistencies in the network distributed on the Web. For example, weather conditions shown in the photo and video do not correspond to the fact that May 8 was observed in Berlin. Also on the spot We visited Ostwest correspondents did not see the Soviet banner over the Reichstag.
Finally, my investigation last night introduced German factor from the DPA project. They said that the Bundestag administration is not known about any incident with such a flag. “There, as usual, the German and European flags flutter on four towers,” the spokeswoman explained in response to a DPA request. In addition, our German colleagues claim that the weather and vegetation captured on the materials spread do not correspond current conditions. For example, it shows gray and clouds covered with clouds, although on May 8 in the center of Berlin was clear and sunny weather with the blue sky, and there were trees on the trees more foliage. The DPA editors noticed another strange detail: in one of the video, which is allegedly shot in the morning, the sun shines On the western facade of the Reichstag building, although this is possible only in the afternoon.
Thus, the German authorities and the journalists who visited the spot deny that on May 8, 2023, someone put the Banner of Victory on the building of the Reichstag. No world and German media wrote anything about this event, and several photos and videos that were first seen in Runet serve as evidence. Moreover, some of them shows the wrong banner, and the weather does not correspond to the one that was May 8 in the center of Berlin. All these arguments allow us to say with confidence that the flag was added to the pictures and rollers in a digital way.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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