Is it true that a comic book is sold in Russia about the war with Ukraine, in which the Chechen fighter is depicted in the image of a patch?

In September 2024, the news spread about the Z-Pomikses that appeared in Russian bookstores, in which the heroes of Winnie Poh participated in Russian bookstores. At the same time, the Piglet is depicted by a Muslim. We decided to check the reliability of these posts.

Starting September 12, network users publish pictures of a U -turn from an unnamed comic book. The main roles are assigned to the characters from "Winnie the Pooh": an owl here is a general who gives orders; blue-yellow bees-Ukrainians; Winnie the Pooh and Piglet are Russian (judging by symbolism on the form) military. At the same time, on unloading, a patch next to the flag of the Russian Federation is drew Chechen, and the piglets asks Winnie the Pooh let him pray before the battle, which he does in the next picture. Users drew attention primarily to the insulting character for Muslims - in Islam, the pig is considered unclean animals. The comic book was written about this as Russian bloggers, so Ukrainian sites, and among the users who are shared by the pictures there are Supporters, so Opponents War with Ukraine. In particular, a publicist told about a Piglet from a comic book about the war in Telegram Alexander Nevzorov (579,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), channels "Cotton swamp"(232 000) and"Truha Navid | CourSk"(65 000). Also, users shared these pictures X, Facebookand forum "Ya pawal".

All users who wrote about the comic presented as confirmation of the same three photos (some - all at once, others - one or two). The pictures capture the same turn. On the left side-owl-general (below it is indicated that this is page No. 5), on the right-Winnie the Pooh and Piglet preparing for the battle with bees (page 6). The third picture is an enlarged part of the right side of the turn, focusing on the Piglet reading the prayer.

Neither the cover nor photographs of other pages of this comic book was “tested”.  In addition, on the fold of the sheet there are no traces of the brochure - most likely, the author of the photograph holds in his hands a folded sheet of paper on which the images are printed. If we assume that this is a central turn, then in the comic book, according to the numbering, there should be five turns. In this position, the hands would be inevitably visible to the cuts of other pages, but they are not noticeable in the pictures.

In addition, “verified” studied the assortment of Russian book -trade sites and did not find such a comic book.

The earliest publication with the viral pictures that we managed to find is a post in the Telegram channel "News from the world of eternal struggle"(3,400 views), which appeared on September 12 at 17:38 Moscow time. “It is reported that such comics about the bear and boar appeared on the shelves of Russia,” the record says without indicating the source. Most of the publications in this channel are devoted to migrants and residents of the republics of the North Caucasus, which the authors invariably respond in an offensive tone. At the same time, the channel writes about the war in Ukraine with approval, and calls the soldiers who are fighting on the side of the Russian Federation “Russian fighters”.

The comic book, which depicts the Muslim Piglet, appeared two days after the aggravation of the conflict of Russian “military men” and nationalists with the commander of the Chechen special forces “Akhmat” and the deputy head of the military-political department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Alaudinov. In August-September 2024, against the backdrop of the APU invasion of the Kursk region, Alaudinov became one of the most noticeable Russian generals In the media space. However, his comments about the fight from Chechnya to Anapa They caused indignation Parts of the "military commander" who accused the commander of Akhmat of "covering his own."

Thus, in Russian stores there is no comic book in which the Piglet is depicted by a Muslim fighting on the side of the Russian Federation, and the drawing first appeared in the nationalist Telegram channel. Most likely, the drawing was offensive to Chechens and Muslims was printed in a single copy.

Photo on the cover: social networks

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