{"id":50633,"date":"2023-02-28T17:43:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50633"},"modified":"2023-03-01T23:48:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T22:48:14","slug":"the-pro-russian-hoax-about-an-alleged-german-leopard-2-tank-sporting-a-nazi-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/28\/the-pro-russian-hoax-about-an-alleged-german-leopard-2-tank-sporting-a-nazi-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"The pro-Russian hoax about an alleged German Leopard 2 tank sporting a nazi graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Russian propaganda has been spreading all kinds of hoaxes for years to support the Kremlin's discourse. The last one has to do with tanks..<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/20\/data-against-the-hoax-that-accuses-ukraine-of-committing-a-genocide-in-the-donbas\/\">Data against the hoax that accuses Ukraine of committing a 'genocide' in the Donbas<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/17\/mh17-the-shooting-down-of-an-airliner-by-pro-russians-in-ukraine-and-russias-lies\/\">MH17: the shooting down of an airliner by pro-Russians in Ukraine and Russia's lies<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In the last few hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Leopard%2014%2F88&src=typed_query&f=live\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pro-Russian netizens are spreading images on Twitter <\/a> in which they claim to see <strong>a Leopard 2 tank with a nazi graffiti that reads \"14\/88\".<\/strong> Here we can see a Russian tweeter who has shared that video stating that it is of <strong>Leopard 2A5 tanks seen in Mannheim, Germany, being transferred to Ukraine:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:10px 0 10px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"ru\" dir=\"ltr\">\u041c\u0430\u043d\u0433\u0435\u0439\u043c, \u0413\u0435\u0440\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044f, \u044d\u0448\u0435\u043b\u043e\u043d \u0442\u0430\u043d\u043a\u043e\u0432 Leopard 2A5 \u0441 \u043c\u0430\u0440\u043a\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u043e\u0439 14\/88 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0430\u0447\u0438 \u0412\u0421\u0423<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uXyRBDKwCd\">pic.twitter.com\/uXyRBDKwCd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u0440\u0430\u0441\u043f\u0430\u0434 \u0438 \u043d\u0435\u0443\u0432\u0430\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 (@VictorKvert2008) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VictorKvert2008\/status\/1630271978715197442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Here we can see the image of the tank in question<\/strong>, shared yesterday by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LogKa11\/status\/1630203741231013888\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> a pro-Russian tweeter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52717435631_a1a52f658c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The number 14 would refer to the motto of white supremacist leader David Lane:<\/strong> <em>\"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children\"<\/em>. <strong>88 would be the numerical version of the initials HH of the Nazi cry \"Heil Hitler\".<\/strong> Some pro-Russian digital media have already published that information with the data I have just indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Well then: <strong>that video is a montage.<\/strong> For starters, what you see in the image are not Leopard 2 tanks being transferred to Ukraine. <strong>Actually these are US Army M1A2 Abrams tanks during a deployment to Germany<\/strong> in March 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lL6jLaqCHow\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swr.de\/swraktuell\/baden-wuerttemberg\/mannheim\/panzer-transport-104.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here you can see the original video<\/a>, in which there is no Nazi graffiti on any of the tanks. Both videos were published in March of last year:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lL6jLaqCHow?start=62\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the Belarusian opposition channel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nexta_tv\/status\/1630561326018830337\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nexta<\/a>, <strong>the hoax was put into circulation by Russian propagandist Andrey Rudenko<\/strong> on his Telegram channel. It is curious that they went to the trouble to make a montage like this and did not even know the type of tank that appeared in those images...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Russian propaganda has been spreading all kinds of hoaxes for years to support the Kremlin&#8217;s discourse. The last one has to do with tanks..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10373],"tags":[10929,2290,5910,10731,16153],"class_list":["post-50633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-germany","tag-leopard-2","tag-m1-abrams","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}