In early May, 2023, the news dispersed about the curious case in the Volga region. We checked whether the Volgograd people really received unusual May Day cards.

As reported, the utilities laid out the Pervomaisian congratulatory cards through the mailboxes in the Voroshilovsky district of Volgograd. Between the two images of the sickle and the hammer, the phrase “in the face of a great goal, no victims will seem too large” - the quote, stated, belongs to the authorship of Adolf Hitler. Publications were usually accompanied by two photographs allegedly taken by a local resident in their entrance.

These postcards were reported by such publications as "New Live","Marvelous" And "Apostrophe". The news received special distribution at Telegram, where channels were written about it "Cotton swamp"(350,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Nexta Live (335,000), "Ukrainian Online" (291 000), ATEO Breaking (200,000), Pravda Gerashchenko (157 000), "Ukraine | News"(156 000) and Mikhail Khodorkovsky (112 000). This information diverged and through Twitter.

For starters - about quote. The statement “in the face of a great goal, no victims will seem too large” on Russian -speaking resources is usually attributed to Hitler. Indeed, it completes the notorious work of the German policy "My struggle" in Russia recognized extremist. The statement is not abstract, in the original source we are talking about a specific goal related to racial policy.

It is embarrassed by the fact that without mentioning Hitler, this statement is practically not found on the network. Therefore, it is extremely unlikely that the employee responsible for the preparation of postcards could accidentally get into a motivational quote and not notice that she belongs to the Fuhrer. Of course, if you exclude the version with deliberate provocation.

Separate interest is the design of postcards. In people whose images are placed above the ribbon with a quote, the appearance resembles Asian. And the truth, as the Search Search Service shows Tineye, the picture mirrated on both sides is often found on Chinese pages associated with a communist theme. Apparently, the compiler of the postcard took advantage of the free template, drawing signs Z and V.

*Left - a picture from the template, on the right - a postcard fragment*

The distribution of photographs with postcards began on May 1 with Volgograd public and Telegram channels. So, at 18:16 Moscow time they appeared in the channel "Volgach", A few hours later - in public"Overheard. Volgograd. Red Army" And "I am ♡ Volzhsky"On VKontakte. In all three cases, the pictures were accompanied by the text: “Thanks to our communal services for postcards (Voroshilovsky district). It seems to be a trifle, but nice. All on the holiday! " (The author's spelling is preserved). Moreover, in Telegram, the channel administrators sent a message to a certain Lyudmila, and on VKontakte in both cases he was placed by the same Account - Again Lyudmila, with the name of Basov. To date, this profile is closed. You can only read that his mistress from Volgograd and graduated from the local medical university (VolgGMU). At the same time, the web archive has copy The profile in VKontakte with the same ID - there the user's name is already Elvin Isakhanov, the profile is also closed. The recognition service of Pimeyes persons defines the person in the photograph specified in the profile of Lyudmila Basova, as belonging to the user "VKontakte" Natalia Petruk (Mamchich) from the city of Staraya Rafalovka, Rivne region of Ukraine. Moreover, the girl in one of the photos from the profile of Natalia is also very similar to the girl from the userpic Lyudmila. At the same time, publications on the wall of Natalia have not appeared since 2016, but in 2020 her daughter Participated In sports competitions in the Donetsk region, where she photographed with her mother. Thus, with a high degree of probability, it can be argued that in the profile of Lyudmila Basova, other people's photos are used. It should be noted that the word “communal”, present in a message in Volgograd publics, is written through “and” (albeit with one “m”) precisely in the Ukrainian language.

May 2 at the Volgograd City Hall at the request of the local information site v1.ru They commented on the distributed information as follows: “The district utilities in principle do not laid out and do not distribute any agitation products, including a congratulatory nature. In addition, the administration of the Voroshilovsky district also did not receive reports about the appearance of leaflets, booklets or other printing products containing extremist statements or quotes of Adolf Hitler in mailboxes. ”

Thus, the source of news about postcards was a post from one user, directed at once to several Volgograd channels. Judging by the photographs in social networks, this user is not the one for whom she gives himself. There are no more evidence of the existence of such postcards. The City Hall of Volgograd even refuted the possibility of their distribution by communal services. All this suggests that in front of us is a fake, for which the quote for Adolf Hitler was specially selected.

Photo on the cover: social networks