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11 мая 2023

Top 5 Fake News. Nobel academicians considered Hitler the guarantor of Europe’s peaceful future

To discredit decisions of the Nobel Committee, the state-run TV channel "Belarus-1" demonstrated a film about his alleged "Hypocrisy and Corruption".

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According to bookmakers, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is among the persons most likely to win the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich and human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, who both opposed Lukashenka's regime, became the winners earlier. 

To discredit such decisions of the Nobel Committee, the state-run TV channel "Belarus-1" demonstrated a film about his alleged "Hypocrisy and Corruption". 

“The encouragement of science and the desire for peace is, of course, a good thing, but, as it turned out, very controversial. Among the laureates was the "father of chemical warfare" Fritz Haber. Killer Stanley Tookie was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature 9 times.

And this person did not get the prize in the end, but the very horror is that he had a real chance to receive it.

In 1939, just three months before the German invasion of Poland, Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The academics considered the Fuhrer to provide Europe with a peaceful future,” the host Ekaterine Tihomirova claims.

Most of what Tihomirova said is not true.

The chemist Fritz Haber is indeed an ambiguous person. He made a great contribution to the invention of chemical weapons. During the First World War, he volunteers for the front and leads the first gas attack in history in Ypres, Belgium, which kills about a thousand people.

Around 1913, Fritz Haber develops a method for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, which are used to produce artificial fertilizers such as nitrogen fertilizers, saving billions of people from starvation. 

Stanley "Tookie" Williams ran the gang in his youth. Being arrested at the age of 28, he was sentenced to death.

He wrote children's books in prison, where he spent over two decades on death row, awaiting the death execution. Their main topic was the fight against street violence. For this, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Stanley Williams didn’t receive the Prize but went down in history as the only death row inmate nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.

Adolf Hitler was actually nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939, but it did not look like Tikhomirova presented it. The Swedish Parliamentarian and Social Democrat, Erik Brandt, sent a letter to the Nobel Committee, nominating the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize.

And he did it in protest against the nomination of British Prime Minister Chamberlain for the Nobel Prize, who signed the Munich Agreement with Hitler in September 1938, when the Czechoslovakian area Sudetenland was handed over to Germany.

In a later interview, Erik Brandt explained that the nomination of Hitler was meant to be ironic. He wanted to demonstrate that neither Chamberlain nor Hitler deserved the Peace Prize.

A few days later, Brant withdrew the nomination in a letter to the Nobel Committee.

Therefore, Ekaterina Tihomirova's words that academicians believed the Fuhrer was the guarantor of the peaceful future of Europe are a lie. The Nobel Committee did not even consider his candidacy.

Fake#4. Poland's GDP fell 

Warsaw city authorities have seized a building from the Russian embassy that was being used as a high school for the children of Russian diplomats. The ruling Law and Justice party wants to divert voters' attention from the catastrophic collapse of the Polish economy before the elections, 

this is how the pro-Lukashenka political scientist Petr Petrovsky interpreted this news on the air of ONT. 

«In 2022, for the first time in many decades, in Poland, there is a real collapse of GDP, which is minus 2.5%. Although it was Poland who imposed sanctions, and not against Poland.

Here is the context before for elections in October. And the Poles will ask not about reparations, but where their incomes go, why prices rise, inflation increase and GDP falls,» he claims. 

It's true that prices go up. in Poland, inflation hit a record 14.4% in 2022. In Belarus, for comparison, it was almost 13%.

Although prices in both countries are rising at about the same rate, economic growth is not the same. Last year, the Polish economy has grown by 5%, while the Belarusian economy collapsed by almost 5%.

Fake#3. EU police took a child from his family that didn't support LGBT values

Belarus authorities were accused of helping Russia kidnap Ukrainian children, taking them to its territory for rehabilitation without the permission of Ukraine. Following this news, the propaganda Telegram channel Nevolfovich shows how in Europe the police take children directly from their families.

Russian outlets spread the same announcement. 

“Here is an ordinary liberal euro-fascism. 

In Germany, a youth justice service removed a boy from a Muslim family that didn't support LGBT values that ​were learned in a German school.

In the city of Bremerhaven, the boy was taken away, as a complaint was received from the school where he studies. 

His family teaches him that homosexuality and transgenderism are unacceptable,” was claimed. 

The video shows that the child is really taken away from the parents. However, local police reject speculation that traditional upbringing and rejection of LGBT values are to cause.

"We can deny that, of course, that's not true," a police spokesman told the German press agency on Tuesday.

According to outlets, the child was taken because he often loudly screamed. Neighbors thought it was physical abuse and called the police.

However, the parents claimed that the child was suffering from "electric shocks to the brain", which caused him to scream and have epileptic seizures.

The police commented on the incident as follows: 

“The video shows a small part of the operation to transfer two children into custody by court order. The police supported the Department of Youth Affairs in this operation. Taking children into care is always a last resort and it happens only for serious reasons.”

Fake#2. Russia is winning the war

Russia is winning the war, claimes the Telegram channels ONT, Soloviov Life, and the Belarusian Silovik in the context of the long absence of Russian victories on the battlefield.

It was presented as the opinion of the US high-ranking military.

 “The commander of the United States European Command, army general Cavoli in the testimony on the armed forces said in the House of Representatives 

announced Russia was winning in the conflict and explained that the "degradation of the armed forces of Russia" was very much distorted in outlets. “This conflict didn't affect negatively on most of the Russian military,” — said a US general,” propaganda outlets stated. 

These posts are paired with a video, part of the TruNews website podcast

— Even in meets of all Russian degradations in its military force because of conflict, its Navi continues to operate. And your college testified that patrols in the Atlantic that used to be a sort of sporadic, submarine patrols, are now becoming persistent. 

What do you do in terms of warfare, to address this? Could you tell us more about this?

— First of all, ser, I would like to underline your comment about the specificity of the degradation of the Russian forces. Much of the Russian military has been not affected negatively by this conflict.

One of those forces is undersea forces. It is hard to talk in public It is hard to talk in public about undersea warfare and our efforts regarded and I can say that Russians are more active than we see in more years and their patrol in the Atlantic is at a high level than we see in years.

At this moment Cavoli's speech is interrupted and a completely different person says in the studio: 

“New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and Fox, London Times and Telegraph, Daily Mail, BBC... All Western media documents tell us every day for a year that the Russians are losing, they are bleeding, their troops are deserting, Ukraine is winning, the Russian army is going collapse, and there is a mutiny. That's all lie. That's all propaganda. The Russians are winning.” 

The man's name is Rick Wiles. He is the founder and host of the TruNews website. 

And his announcement was attributed to the US general by telegram channels.

However, the general did not say any of this.

In his report, he lists exactly which Russian troops were not affected: “Russian air, maritime, space, cyber, and strategic forces have not suffered significant degradation in the current war.”

But he does not talk about the distortion of media information and the victory of Russia. It's all Rick Wiles' fiction.

Rick Wiles is a far-right American conspiracy theorist and senior pastor at the non-denominational Flowing Streams Church.

He claimed the coronavirus was the angel of death, he called Barack Obama a demon from hell, and the Jews, in his opinion, are going to kill millions of Christians.

Fake#1. Russian troops revenge on a woman from Uman for a video 

Russia launched missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Uman, resulting in civilian casualties.

Following this news, propaganda bloggers and the media convinces that the residents affected by Russian missiles are not entirely peaceful and are to blame for everything.

For example, here is what the Belarusian state-run TV presenter Grigory Azarenok said in his author's project:

“Please turn on the video that we have prepared about ... a civilian for the moment. And then we'll discuss...

Now show us the photo. The same lady is very recent. “At the end, there is the admin's favorite lunch. Send it to someone with whom you want to feast on a Russian baby”.  

And there is the baby doll in the pot and that stupid bastard expression on her face. 

Well, did you get it, you bitch, did you get it? This is what you all deserve. They will cook a baby.” 

The same information is also spread by other propaganda media and telegram channels.

In fact, the crying woman from Uman is called Yulia. Her video was widely circulated in the media. Here is her Instagram. She works as a stylist. We contacted her and the woman confirmed that she really was in the video: 

“Hello. My name is Yulia Komizerko. I am the girl who filmed the video at the time of the missile attack on Uman. And I want to refute what Russian propaganda has dragged into me.

I have nothing to do with that girl who cooked something in a pot... Children or whatever. You can look at my photos and even conclude from my tattoos that it was not me.”

As for the photo of a woman with a pot, we found a video from where this shot was taken. 

In this video, the girl is clearly visible from different angles. Her distinguishing feature is a tattoo on her arm below the elbow.

When comparing the pic with the photos of Yulia from Uman, it is obvious that the girls are completely different.

The only thing that brings them together is dark long hair. And their tattoos don't match.