At the end of January 2025, the media and Telegram channels reported that Poland residents opposed the President of Ukraine attending events dedicated to the exemption of the Aushvitz-Birkenu concentration camp. We checked the reliability of such publications.
On January 27, on the day of the 80th anniversary of the release of prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp and death camp Aushvitz-Birkenau, messages spread over the network: the Poles allegedly hung posters with a portrait of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and the signature “The Nazi Place in the garbage, and not in Auschwitz”. It was argued that such posters hang throughout Poland, and dissatisfaction is connected with the invitation of a politician to events dedicated to the day of memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
The news was published, in particular, Telegram channels "Ukraine.ru"(136,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Sheikh Tamir"(127 000),"Denazification of Ukraine"(50,000) and"Diary of the paratrooper"(37,000).
January 27, on the International Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust Victims, in Poland took place The ceremony dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Aushvitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet troops. Event Visit High -ranking foreign guests: King of Great Britain Karl III, Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholts, French President Emmanuel Macron and many others. Among them was Vladimir Zelensky.
Russian officials for the event Not invited - The director of the museum in Auschwitz explained that this decision is caused by the continuing invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine. Until 2022, representatives of Moscow regularly participated in the ceremony, although Criticized organizers for "distortion of history." Russian President Vladimir Putin, commenting on the decision adopted in 2025 by the leadership of the Memorial Museum in Auschwitz, He called it His strange and noted that at the same time the invitation was received by people who “elected Bandera and Grouped Former SS soldiers. ”
The pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, noting the widespread discontent of the Poles with the arrival of Zelensky, used a photograph with leaflets allegedly hung in an unnamed Polish city as evidence. Judging by the picture, four identical poses hang on a cork board with ads. On these posters there is a portrait of Zelensky and a signature in Polish, which translates: "The place of the Nazis in the garbage, and not in Aushwitz." In addition to leaflets, the inscription “Zakaz Palenia” (“smoking is prohibited” is visible at the top of the board) and advertising the massage cabinet in the lower right corner.
Despite the fact that all four leaflets are located in a chaotic manner, the posters themselves look exactly the same. Placies are placed on an uneven surface, but there are no characteristic shadows and deformations on them. Unnaturalness is especially noticeable in comparison with the advertising of the massage office: it is lit less evenly, and the corners of the sheet are bent. In addition, the buttons that allegedly attached leaflets with Zelensky in all four cases are located at the same distance from the corners of the poster.
All this indicates that the leaflet with the portrait of the Ukrainian president, apparently, was processed in the photo editor, then they copied it and inserted it in three other places. Service Forensically, helping to identify traces of digital manipulations with images, shows that there are traces of cloning in the viral picture. At the same time, the analysis did not reveal significant anomalies when considering the lower left poster: this suggests that it could be hanged on the board, and subsequently multiplied when editing the photo.
Although Telegram channels report the appearance of such posters throughout Poland, it did not “verify” in open sources of other pictures with these leaflets. Moreover, such a protest is not reported in any authoritative Polish or Ukrainian source. The photo began to disperse on the network in the evening of January 27, that is, after Beginning memorable events in Auschwitz, which was attended by the President of Ukraine. If the inhabitants of Poland were against his arrival, then most likely they would have expressed dissatisfaction earlier and even then appropriate evidence would have appeared. In general, it was not possible to find information about any mass performances of the Poles against the visits of the Ukrainian leader, although he often visits the country with official visits (only in the first month of 2025 there were two of them, 15 And 27 January).
The photo spread mainly through pro-Russian Telegram channels-for the first time it Published In the channel "Sheikh Tamir" on January 27 at 18:06 Moscow time. Sheikh Tamir is one of the most active distributors of anti -Ukrainian fakes in the Russian -speaking segment of Telegram. Further, the image with leaflets dispersed in X, including in tweets on English And Polish languages.
The rhetoric, used by the creators and distributors of the fake, coincides with the statements of Russian officials who criticized the invitation of Zelensky to commemorative events to Auschwitz. Official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria ZakharovaCommenting on this topic, she called the Ukrainian president a dictator who has manual Nazis with appropriate symbols, banners, ideology and heroes. The speaker of the Russian Foreign Ministry also stated that the appearance of Zelensky in Auschwitz caused indignation in the Jewish religious circles of Poland, and the Polish rabbis even boycotted the ceremony, but this statement turned out to be fake.
Thus, there is no evidence that the Poles massively stuck leaflets, protesting against the arrival of Vladimir Zelensky in Aushwitz on the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp. The only evidence of dissatisfaction is a picture from an unknown city with obvious traces of editing.
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