In February 2024, a photograph allegedly taken in a preschool in the Armenian capital dispersed on social networks. We checked whether the portraits of the leaders of Ukrainian and local nationalists really placed there.
The photo captures a wall decorated with images of two flags: Ukrainian and Armenian. On the sides of them, according to the appropriate signatures on top of the picture, portraits of nationalists of Stepan Bandera and Garegin Nzhde are hanging. At the bottom of the image you can see children's drawings. “This is how the path to the abyss looks,” the signatures to the picture often say. Some see in the picture the proof that in Armenia "fascist ideology is imposed on children from the first days."
Photos with similar comments were actively diverged in social networks - in particular, channels published it in Telegram Zergulio (242,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Uncle Glory"(201 000),"Putin in Telegram"(157 000), Voblya (154,000) and "Alexander Semchenko"(101 000).
Issues related to the veneration of nationalist figures in post -Soviet countries are a common topic of publications in the Russian media, especially if the biography of these persons includes cooperation with the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. Often similar messages Contain Disinformation or manipulative information - “verified” disassembled a number of such materials related to Stepan Bandera. Activity Garegin Nzhda, the commander and leader of Armenian nationalism in the first half of the 20th century, also Often It is illuminated in the press not entirely correct.
There is no doubt that photos of Bandera and Nzhda are hanging on the wall - this Famous Picturesfreely available. But the author of the viral photo It turned out Journalist of the Armenian publication Civilnet Anna Eganyan. On February 13, she published an article in which she said that the photo was taken not in kindergarten, but in the center Dopomoga - located in Yerevan to the headquarters of assistance to Ukrainians and Armenian refugees from Nagorno -Karabakh (Artsakh). The Egan forces shot a report on the activities of the humanitarian organization, and on February 9 posted a photo on her personal Instagram, signing both portraits.
February 19 with a statement He performed Already the Dopomoga headquarters. Activists added to the journalist’s story: “Yes, indeed, a children's table is captured in the frame: many children come to us, and they have something to do while parents undergo training or expect help or consultations. And in our office there are many symbols of Ukraine. It hurts that our homeland is destroyed and equal to cities with the Earth, we made a small Ukraine in Armenia, and, coming to the office, our pain subsides a little. ”
The report also said that Nzhda and Bandera are “people who lived by the freedom and values of their people and gave their lives for this,” and the photograph that dispersed through the Telegram channels became another tool for manipulative propaganda in relation to these historical personalities.
The same wall more than once fell on the pictures published in the Telegram channel of the organization Dopomoga. The frame made by the Eganians first accompanied the authors of the Azerbaijani Canal with an incorrect signature about the kindergarten "Without brakes"(The post was posted on February 10 at 11:28 Moscow time). Then, with this description, Russian resources were picked up with this description. As mentioned above, this photo has nothing to do with kindergarten.
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