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Spinmeisters Of Russia: The Bucha Massacre Likened To WWII Nazis

Kalev Leetaru

On Sunday evening, Russia-24 presented a 2-part piece (~50 minutes) framing Ukraine's fight against Russia’s invasions as a product of decades long European and U.S. campaigns to destroy Russia through “Russophobia” propaganda/disinformation, supporting an “essentially neo-Nazi coup d'etat in Ukraine" and providing military support for Ukraine.

A 3:39 segment of Part 1 (~25 minutes) asserts evidence of Russian military massacring civilians and prisoners of war in Bucha in late March were faked in a manner similar to a cited example of Nazis staging civilian bodies in a village and claiming in their press that Soviet soldiers had murdered every villager.

Part 2 is ~26 minutes long and continue claims of Western anti-Russian disinformation campaigns regarding their war on Ukraine, with repeated assertions of similarity to anti-Soviet Nazi propaganda.  One segment of Part 2 equates Nazi propaganda with the exceptionally explicit and graphic claims of Lyudmila Denisova, former Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, that Russian soldiers had committed sexual crimes against Ukrainian women and children.

This analysis is part of an ongoing collaboration between the Internet Archive and its TV News Archive, the multi-party Media-Data Research Consortium and GDELT.