September 2, 2014
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StopFake website fun
We keep reading about Russian disinformation, which is distorted and bizarre. Some Russian propaganda is not even remotely connected to reality. I learned about it by browsing the StopFake website. You will enjoy
A baby crucifixion in Slavyansk - this is the kind of crap Russian TV routinely purveys without irony.
StopFake clarifies,
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Russia’s Channel One ran a horrific story of an alleged baby crucifixion in Ukraine. The only “witness” to the alleged mind-numbing public execution is Galyna Pyshniak, who was interviewed in Russia.
Her breathless story included the following claims: “Center of the city. Lenin square. Our Gorispolkom is the only square where you could herd all the people. They gathered women, because there are no more men. Women, girls, old people. It was called a show execution. They took a child, 3 years old, a little boy. He was wearing little briefs and a T-shirt and they nailed him, like Jesus, to the bulletin board.”
Out of the entire town of Slavyansk, there is not a single witness who could corroborate this outlandish horror story, which was seemingly “inspired” by the 4th season of the Game of Thrones, which dealt with public crucifixion of 163 children.
Who is buying this? One separatist, a Russian retired military officer, referred to this "story" as a reason for relocating to Ukraine: "the children must be saved!"
A dead child in Slavyansk? - photo of a child killed in Aleppo, Syria, falsely represented to depict a child killed by the Ukrainian military in Slavyansk, Ukraine
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Comments (2)
I had read somewhere that Russian media, which is controlled by the government of course, has run stories about Ukraine and the U.S. and they are using plots from U.S. TV shows like Game of Thrones and House of Cards.
yeah, they pull this stuff out of their red asses. Russian tv is a kind of dark-matter-Fox News but without competing points of view. There are no other sources. So they state flatly e.g. that the Malaysian plane was shot down by nato nazis.
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