In mid-August 2023, the covers of American and German magazines with caricatures about the superiority of Russian aviation and tension in Ukrainian-Polish relations dispersed over the network. We decided to check if these are the real covers.
American magazine Chronicles
The cover allegedly issued by the publication depicts a gained fighter that “says”: “I’m the ghost of kyiv” (“I The ghost of Kyiv"), And the larger fighter with a star on his tail, which" claims ":“ so, we’re ghostbusters ”(“ In that case, we are ghost hunters ”). Probably, the name of one of the articles in this issue is also made on the cover: “Russia-Ukraine War: Who is the True King of the Sky in Ukraine” (“Russian-Ukrainian war: who is the real king in the sky of Ukraine”) with Wayne Allensworth. On August 11, the caricature was placed in the Telegram channel Fighterbomber (1.2 million views at the time of writing this analysis), and then it was distributed among others, channels "Russia now"(261 000),"Putin in Telegram! (166,000) and Voblya (123,000, repost is removed).
On the cover, supposedly belonging to the Chronicles magazine, it was noted that this is a release for August 2023. However, on site The publications where all the numbers of the magazine are presented, the August release looks completely different - its cover is dedicated to the US election.
The latter at the time of the distribution of caricature with military aircraft publication on the author's page of publicist Wayne Allensvort on the Chronicles website Dedicated the death of the writer Kormak McCarthy, and his last publication About Ukraine dated May 2022. “Verified” failed to find any traces of the article under the heading of Russia - Ukraine War: who is the true King of the Sky in Ukraine either on the magazine’s website, and blogs and social networks.
The Fighterbomber Telegram channel, which was the first to spread the cover, writes that she "sagged on the site just a little, after which she disappeared somewhere." However, judging by address Directors of the file with the August cover on the Chronicles website, it was posted in July, long before the appearance of the post in the channel.
Fake caricature was made on the basis of an earlier Russian: “verified” discovered a drawing almost identical in technique and composition public former caricacuist "RIA Novosti" Vitaly Off On VKontakte. Privnika has been engaged in a political anti -Western caricature since 2014. This drawing can be dated no later than 2018 a year, and a sketch of a fighter in the same public was published in 2014.
The fact that this is a fake is also said by a technical error: the barcode on the magazine is taken from the cover of the real June release of Chronicles for 2022.
German magazine Eulenspiegel
The publication of the second cover is attributed to the German satirical magazine Eulenspiegel. The caricature depicts President of Poland Andrzej Dudu, who is running away from the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky with the words "It is obvious that the Ukrainian counterattack fails." The next Duda with a torch, Zelensky shouts: “Are you an idiot?! Volyn massacre 2.0 wanted?! " Telegram channels shared this cover on August 14 "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation" (10 900 views), "Gasparyan" (71,000), "Mulania" (8 500). The cover did not become viral in Telegram, but diverged in many small engaged channels, and then got into specific sites,VKontakte" And to the messenger TAMTAM.
There is no similar cover on EULENSPIEGEL pages in Facebook And Twitternot on the official site. August cover cover It looks Otherwise-it is by no means dedicated to Zelensky and Duda, but by the Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholtsu and Vice Chancellor Robert Habek, and it was laid out on July 24, 20 days before the cover of the cover with Duda and Zelensky in the Russian-language segment of Telegram.
There is also a technical error: the magazine is numbered as 08/2023, while on the original EULENSPIEGEL covers the number is always indicated without zero at the beginning. The barcode was taken to create a fake from the cover of a real August number.
This is not the first attempt to give a fake for a real cover of a German satirical magazine. "Verified" already disassembled plots with supposedly March, June And July The covers of EULENSPIEGEL-all of them turned out to be fakes and, like the fresh caricature of Dudu and Zelensky, were first published in the Telegram channel “Earlier of all. Well, almost. Special operation ".
Photo on the cover: collage "Checked"
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