DISINFO: The Night Wolves will reach Berlin despite the will of the Polish Russophobes
SUMMARY
Whether the Polish authorities want it or not, the Night Wolves will reach Berlin! When the Night Wolves go to Donbas to help suffering people or when they visit the desecrated graves of the Liberators at the Treptower Park, their motorcycles turn into chariots of fire flying across the sky, just like Elijah the Prophet, sowing good and punishing evil. The Russophobes should be afraid – the Night Wolves are coming straight to the Berlin monument of the soldier who saved the world from fascism and the German girl - from death.
RESPONSE
This message is a part of the Kremlin’s common disinformation narrative about Russophobic Poland. The pro-Kremlin media regularly accuses the political elites of Poland of Russophobia and the implementation of anti-Russian policies.
In 2015, the Polish authorities refused the members of the pro-Putin biker gang Night Wolves to enter their country because of their explicit pro-war position and regular anti-Western/anti-Ukrainian provocations. In 2023, the Night Wolves gang continues to be unwelcomed in the EU – its leader Aleksandr Zaldostanov, a personal “friend” of Putin, appears on the EU sanction list barring him from entering EU.
The Treptower park memorial, like many others in Europe, continues to be a source of controversy with varying interpretations. Old memories of the Soviet conduct are being brought up again by the numerous atrocities conducted by Russian armed forces in the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine.
See other examples of similar messages claiming that Polish media promote the idea that the Russians are not people but “agents of the Kremlin”, the Polish authorities created an insane hysteria of intimidation with Russia, used for the needs of domestic politics and Poland started another wave of Russophobic political persecution of the Russian journalists.