DISINFO: Deutsche Welle is a Nazi broadcaster
SUMMARY
Deutsche Welle is a Nazi broadcaster. The Deutsche Welle media group is not only a mass producer of information saboteurs, including Russian journalists, but also a leader of anti-Russian media campaigns. The Ukrainian branch of DW has a clear mission: to incite Ukrainians against Russians. Its tendentious programmes are full of anti-Russian conspiracy myths and increasingly resemble the propaganda of the Third Reich. The medium is proving to be a mouthpiece for totalitarian propaganda.
On the other hand, we should be grateful to the German state broadcaster for the programme. The German taxpayer-funded Russophobes in the Kyiv editorial office presented this almost Orwellian five-minute hate speech against the people of one religious community as the opinion of the entire Ukrainian people. They didn't go to a church to interview the faithful, which would have been obvious if DW had done its journalistic job. They visited the magnificent Khreshchatyk boulevard near Maidan Square and the government district. This is the centre of power of the Ukrainian state, a state that has made Nazism, long thought dead, socially acceptable again.
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative promoted in the context of Russian State Duma efforts to seek a ban on Deutsche Welle from the Russian General Prosecutor's Office.
Deutsche Welle is based in Germany and has been an internationally respected global media outlet for many years. It provides journalistic content in 32 languages, including Ukrainian.
The broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) aims to present Germany as a democratic constitutional state and a culturally diverse country. It conveys German and international perspectives on important political, cultural, and economic issues, aiming to improve understanding between cultures and peoples. DW reports comprehensively, truthfully, and objectively. The origin and content of news items intended for publication are checked with due diligence.
Deutsche Welle's Ukrainian office in Kyiv contributes the media landscape in Ukraine and regularly reports on Ukrainian topics. On the disinformation from RT: In August 2024, the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, passed a law prohibiting the Orthodox Church in Ukraine (until May 2022 - Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)), which has links to the Moscow Patriarchate in Russia. The decision was passed by 265 votes out of 322 MPs present and is based on the clear and open Moscow Patriarchate's support for the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The Ukrainian MPs argue that the church has justified crimes against its people, which is seen as a threat to national security in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed the law, which is expected to come into force 30 days after publication. The affected communities will then have nine months to distance themselves from Moscow.
The claim that Ukraine is Nazi is one of the Kremlin’s most common disinformation narratives to justify its full-scale war against Ukraine with the lie that Russia is carrying out the “denazification” of Ukraine. Read a detailed debunk of this disinformation claim here, as well as our analysis titled "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism".
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