The material is updated ↓
In September 2023, a photo spread in social networks, which allegedly captures a poster with a signature referring to a conservative German slogan. We checked whether such a billboard really placed in the Kherson region.
On the poster there is a slogan “Children, kitchen, church! The meaning and greatness of the Russian woman ”(the wording directly refers to the German idiom"Kinder, Küche, Kirche"), As well coat of arms With a two -headed eagle, which is used by the occupying authorities of the Ukrainian region. September 17 about this billboard on your website wrote The Television Service of News is one of the most popular news shows in Ukraine, published on the 1 + 1 channel. The note states that the first photo of the poster Shared Advisor to the mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko, saying that it was shot in the occupied part of the Kherson region.
Image Distant In Ukrainian and Russian -speaking segments Telegram, Facebook, on forums and in Blogs With indication The fact that the used slogan was part of the ideology of the Nazis. In particular, an image with a similar commentary Placed On the social network X (formerly Twitter), adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko, his tweet gained 1.6 million views and more than 4,000 retweets. At the same time, only users They saythat the poster did not appear in the Kherson region, but in the Crimea, others write About posters in the plural, others express doubt about the authenticity of the picture. Authors of the Telegram channel "Two Majors" They called it its provocation; also that the photo of the poster is Fake wrote in "Live magazine" And Telegram channel Dyak Andrey Kuraev.
The earliest of the discovered “verified” publications, which contained a picture of this poster, was posted in the Telegram channel "Huev@y Mariupol | Mariupol " September 17 at 10:06 Moscow time. At 10:19 photo start To spread in VKontakte, and only at 13:55 it was published in his Telegram channel Andryushchenko.
Traces discovered "tested" in the image using services Invid And Forensically, allowed with some probability to argue that the inscription and coat of arms on the banner were added to the picture in the photo editor. These areas stand out sharply when analyzing photography through the algorithm Ghost (creates a number of copies of the file in various quality, and then compares with the original to find potentially mounted areas), and when analyzing the error level (Error Level Analysis) The difference between yellow areas is noticeable, which should not be normal. The shadow under the word "Russian" also looks unnatural. However, this is not enough for one hundred percent evidence of technical intervention.
Photo of a woman on the poster is regularly used to create thematic Orthodox web banners for various occasions (messages About posts and church holidays, instructions on Correct clothes for visiting the church, etc.). Thanks to the subscribers, “verified” found Original photoused to create a billboard, with preserved metadan. Its author is Kyiv photographer Sergey Ryzhkov, and the picture itself was taken on April 28, 2013.
Search results for the image in Yandex
However, it was not possible to find a similar physical banner with this photo using the search by the image. The posts about the poster do not specify the settlement where it was placed, and the details in the photo do not allow confirming or refuting that the picture was taken in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The version of the fake is indicated by the fact that a common photo exists in the only version removed from one angle. Judging by the search for blogs and social networks, ordinary Internet users did not meet such posters either in Ukraine or anywhere else.
It should be noted that the statement of Anton Gerashchenko and authors of other publications that “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” is a Nazi slogan is not quite true. This is a stable expression appeared Long before the arrival of the National Socialist German Working Party to the authorities. The authorship of the phrase is attributed to Kaiser Wilhelm II (rules in 1888–1918), it entered wide everyday life in the last third of the 19th century. The concept of “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” was certainly close to the Nazis, but, in view of a difficult relationship with the Church, emphasis was on Kinder and Küche. In particular, c Speech Hitler dated September 8, 1934, to which Gerashchenko refers, the church is not mentioned in principle. How Notes The German historian Sylvia Palechek, at the beginning of the 20th century, with the development of a woman’s rights movement, the phrase became the subject for irony, and after 1945, many began to mistakenly attribute to the Nazis in the English-language discourse.
Thus, in the aggregate, the discovered direct and indirect evidence allowed with a high probability to argue that the photo is falsified. However, it is possible to completely exclude the likelihood that the banner was made in one copy, placed in the occupied part of the Kherson region and photographed.
Update on September 27, 2023: Fixed a statement about the earliest of the discovered publications that contain a viral photograph. Added information about the picture that became the basis of a billboard. The analysis version before amendments is available by link.
Photo on the cover: tsn.ua
If you find a spelling or grammatical error, please inform us of this, highlighting the text with an error and by pressing Ctrl+Enter.
