In May 2025, the media and Telegram channels reported that on the streets of the German capital in an unusual digital format, the Immortal Regiment was held. Several videos and pictures were used as evidence. We checked the authenticity of this story.
On May 7, one of the largest Russian-speaking Telegram channels "reported about the alleged action"Live broadcast"(754,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). “Despite all the prohibitions, the Immortal Regiment was held in Germany yesterday. On street billboards in cities, images of veterans and the inscription are broadcast: “After 80 years they are again in Berlin,” the post said, which gave four videos and two photos. TV channel "Tsargrad-TV"(81,000 views) noted that the pictures of Soviet veterans were allegedly demonstrated on screens in different areas of the city at different times. “Whose action is this and who is the organizer is not specified. Perhaps Russian hackers will be accused again, ”the channel added"Pool N3"(70,000 views).
According to the TGSTAT service, about 300 similar posts appeared in Telegram, which gained more than 2.3 million views in total. About photos and videos of Berlin billboards wrote channels "Truthfulness"(143,000 views),"Cat Kostyan"(86 000),"Bullet"(72 000)," Special operation Z "(56,000 And 60 000), "Z-News | Army 🅉 18+"(59,000) and others. There are similar posts in VKontakte (examples here, here, here, here And here). RT agency told about this in Telegram (194,000 views) and "Zen". Messages about the alleged promotion in Berlin became popular and on "Picabu"(161,000 views).
To begin with, it was “verified” to determine the source of the news about the digital “Immortal Regiment” in the capital of Germany. In the German press, no references to such an action were found. The earliest post that we were able to track appeared in the RT Telegram channel mentioned above. May 7 at 08:35 Moscow time there Published 42-second compilation of three rollers allegedly shot the day before in Berlin. They are captured on different advertising screens demonstrated portraits of participants in the Second World War from the USSR. In this case, the images were accompanied by the logo movements The Immortal Regiment and the inscription duplicated in German and Russian: "After 80 years they are again in Berlin." It was reported that an unnamed subscriber shared these shots with RT.
However, RT cannot be called a full -fledged source, since only three records were given in the publication of the Russian state news agency, and “verified” found many times more such materials (moreover, not only videos, but also photos). For example, less than half an hour in the Telegram channel "Pool N3»We posted two photos and four different videos, where such billboards with pictures of Soviet veterans were shown, and only one of them was used in compilation RT. In total, in different Telegram channels, we found 12 similar videos, of which seven were in vertical format, and five in horizontal. Some were removed by passers -by, others from the car, others allegedly are fragments of records made by cameras of video surveillance.
Despite many materials, they were all shot in three locations. “Verified” determined that the most part of the rollers captured the Berlin Videowall billboard hanging above store Network C&A on the crowded street, Elector. ReportedThat this is the largest digital advertising shield in the center of Berlin and more than 181,000 people see it daily. A few more videos and two photos were allegedly taken Nearby from the Berlin TV tower and near East Side Gallery is a preserved fragment of the Berlin Wall, scribbled graffiti.
The advertising shield, which is located next to this open-air gallery, serves the sports and concert complex Uber Arena (previously Mercedes-Benz Arena), located across the road. FACHECHERS from the Stopfake project Turned to the senior director for sales of sponsorship services Stefan Kushe. He stated that the company conducted an internal check and found out: viral materials with their billboard are fake, since such images did not broadcast on the Uber Arena advertising site. Later, this information was confirmed by our colleagues and the press service of the complex. Stopfake also requested a comment from Limes - The company serving Berlin Videowall, but at the time of publication of the material did not receive an answer. "Verified" wrote in Ströerwhose logo is visible on a billboarding at the Berlin television tower, and received such a commentary on the press service: “We can confidently say that this video is not shown on our screen.”
According to the TGSTAT service, after more than three hours after the publication of your post RT it edited, adding the phrase: "The video turned out to be generated by AI." Stopfake factor also suggested that the authors of the records used the neural networks for installation. “Tested”, in turn, has no doubt that the above -mentioned videos and photos were fabricated, but does not believe that they were created. We did not find any signs characteristic of the work of the neural network: the streets look the same as on panoramas in the Google Street View, and there are no noticeable distortions on the figures and faces of people.
If you carefully study viral videos, then you can find many artifacts of installation inherent in “man -made” fakes on them. For example, on one of the records for some time, a column is overlapped by an advertising shield. If this fragment is considered scanarovo, then white areas can be seen near the column contour for a moment.
In another video, the woman’s head blocks the lower part of the screen, and at the moment when her hair begins to block the billboard, its border seems to flicker for a short time.
The video, which supposedly represents the recording of the outdoor surveillance camera, it can be noted that the reflection from the billboard in the windshields of the cars standing nearby do not correspond to the fact that at that time it is allegedly demonstrated on the screen.
Backnibbler user, who also did not believe in the theory of creating a video using neural networks, even Published The converted version of one of the video distributed and wrote: "Off of a whale, if you get confused, you can do it no worse installation."
The topics of viral materials, as well as the method and time of their distribution, are similar to fakes, which were previously disassembled “tested”. For example, May 8, 2023 in Runet Published A series of photos and videos taken from different angles, which allegedly show the banner of victory, hoisted over the Reichstag. The next day in the media and social networks Hanged The video on which the inscription "grandfathers won - grandchildren will win on the facade of the same building." A year later, Telegram channels ReportedThat on the Brandenburg gate on the night of May 8 they projected the banner of victory, and then several pictures and records also served as evidence. However, in fact, all such materials turned out to be falsified, and there were no such actions in the capital of Germany.
As for the real procession of the Immortal Regiment, he was not prohibited in Berlin, contrary to viral posts. How Reported The Russian media, the action took place in the capital and other cities of Germany on May 9. According to the correspondent TASS, in Berlin, hundreds of people joined the procession. Participants Gathered At the Brandenburg Gate and moved to the Soviet memorial located nearby in Tirgarten, where they laid flowers. At the same time, the German authorities warned that such shares on May 8 and 9 forbidden To bring Soviet and Russian flags, the symbols of invasion of Ukraine and St. George ribbons, and also you can not come in military uniform, in white-blue-red and black-orange clothing.
Thus, on May 6, 2025, in the capital of Germany on billboards, photographs of Soviet veterans with the slogan “They are again in Berlin after 80 years” were not demonstrated. Videos and pictures illustrating this news were faked. This confirms both visual analysis and companies that control two of three captured advertising screens. Although the action allegedly took place in crowded places near the large Berlin transport hubs, the local press, as well as the inhabitants and guests of the German capital, did not report anything about it.
Photo on the cover: social networks / RT
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