The Western media praised Hitler until he lost the war, just as it is doing today with Zelenskyy, the Nazi leader in Kyiv.
NEWS: People don't know that TIME magazine and the entire globalist media designated the Führer “the person of the year” and sung him praises. That's exactly how the Hero of the Year was depicted on the cover of magazines every year!
Doesn't it all sound too familiar?... And when Hitler lost the war... immediately, they changed the narrative. Today's world hero – is he next in line?... Let's see what happens....
NARRATIVE: 1. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, was constantly praised in the Western media prior to May 1945. 2. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is, in turn, the leader of a Nazi regime, which seeks the destruction of Russian unity.
PURPOSE: To promote anti-Western, anti-Ukrainian and by extension pro-Russian rhetoric, to undermine societal trust in traditional media, to stir and amplify social unrest.
Hitler was never praised and commended by Western media
WHY THE NARRATIVES ARE FALSE: In July 2022, a few months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, Vogue magazine published an article about the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Olena, illustrated, among other things, with a photo of the two of them. Shortly afterwards, a series of photo collages appeared on social media, where the Zelenskyy couple was depicted next to a picture of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, with the mention that this had, in turn, been published in the pages of Vogue magazine in 1939. The collages were accompanied by texts such as “When they say European values, do they refer to the values we see in these photos?”, or “This is what our taxes have bought”, “We are happy to see that some things never change”, etc. Posts of this kind also appeared in Romanian media, accompanied by comments such as “Vogue remains faithful to tradition. It's good to see some stability in this dying world”. Since then, the said association is periodically reiterated nearly every time Russian propaganda feels the need to bring back to the public's attention the narrative regarding Kyiv’s Nazism. In fact, Vogue did not publish the image, nor did it publish any article about the Nazi leader and his mistress. In fact, the photo in question had been doctored, Hannelore Morell, the wife of Hitler's personal physician, being cut out of the original picture, standing between him and Eva Braun.
As for the designation of Hitler as “Person of the Year” by TIME magazine, this happened only once, in 1938, and TIME editors have explained what prompted their decision countless times since then. Thus, even today, the criteria for selecting people designated as “person of the year” do not take into account their good or bad deeds, but how much they impact the flow of information and people’s lives, regardless of the nature of their influence. This explains why, over the years, TIME has designated as person of the year the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin or Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, but also the current leaders in the White House and the Kremlin, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, a piece of information that Russian propaganda leaves out. For instance, in the article dedicated to the designation of the Russian president as Person of the Year 2007, TIME explains its decision: “TIME's Person of the Year is not and never has been an honor. It is not an endorsement. It is not a popularity contest. At its best, it is a clear-eyed recognition of the world as it is and of the most powerful individuals and forces shaping that world—for better or for worse. It is ultimately about leadership—bold, earth-changing leadership. Putin is not a boy scout. He is not a democrat in any way that the West would define it. He is not a paragon of free speech. He stands, above all, for stability—stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen it for a hundred years”.
The photo collage with the alleged TIME magazine covers depicting Hitler as Person of the Year (although some are real, although they merely represent regular, not anniversary issues of the magazine), in addition to omitting to display the cover from January 2, 1939, further disinforms readers, claiming that in 1943, the Nazi dictator was designated Man of the Century. In fact, this distinction was awarded by TIME magazine only once in history, to Albert Einstein, in 1999. In addition, the publication also awarded the Man of the Half Century title to Winston Churchill in 1949, and designated Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as Man of the Decade, in its last issue in 1989. In 1943, the American general, diplomat and politician George Marshall was designated Person of the Year.
The narrative about Kyiv’s Nazism is probably the central theme of Russian propaganda, which justified Russia’s aggression against Ukraine precisely by invoking the argument of its “denazification and demilitarization”. The narrative was launched even before the invasion of February 2022, and has been dismantled by Veridica ever since. Ukraine has officially banned Nazi and communist ideologies in 2015. Moreover, since the proclamation of the independence of Ukraine, no Nazi party or candidate has ever enrolled in an election. Ukrainian nationalist parties, which cannot be called Nazi, either did not cross the electoral threshold, or, whenever they did, obtained a maximum of 6-8% of total seats. In fact, Russian propaganda traditionally describes any manifestations of nationalism and identity in ex-Soviet space as forms of Nazism/fascism. Anything that goes against the Kremlin's ideological vision is labeled Nazi by Moscow. Moreover, according to international experts, neo-Nazism and extremism are very important ideologies in Russia, especially for the Russian army, becoming instruments of controlling and manipulating society through media.
Moscow’s representation of Ukraine, the rebellious part of the Russian World
BACKGROUND: Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia has launched various false narratives regarding Ukraine, simultaneously labeled as an “artificial state”, a “neo-Nazi state” or a "”Western colony”. In promoting these false narratives, Moscow relies on various meta-narratives about the Ukrainian people, who are allegedly part of the Russian World. Moscow claims Ukraine is an integral part of historical Russia, whose break with Moscow would spell a genuine geopolitical catastrophe. Thus, any attempt from Kyiv to distance itself from the Soviet or neo-Soviet narratives is labeled an expression of neo-Nazism. The Russian media considers Ukraine’s adoption of Western approaches to the past (for example, condemning communism) to be a betrayal, an attempt to rehabilitate and revive Nazism. The Russian media further claims that the West has forgotten that it was liberated from the Nazis thanks to the USSR (Russia), and is now encouraging Nazi ideology in Ukraine.
The narratives were (re)published this time on the Telegram channel of a former journalist from the Republic of Moldova, currently based in Bucharest, who fosters conspiracy rhetoric, capitalizing on all the major themes of current interest, even when they clash. In addition, she is a fervent supporter of Russia and the war of aggression it has unleashed in Ukraine. A year ago, picking up a news story from 2023 and interpreting it in her own style, she announced that the World Economic Forum wants to legalize human-animal marriages. In February 2024, one day after the assassination in prison of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the former journalist launched a false narrative, claiming that “Westerners not only assassinated Navalny, but also accidentally published the announcement of his death before he died”, using as an argument the confusion between UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) and Moscow time (UTC+3).
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