Graphical designers working for Kremlin love to reuse existing artwork for propaganda posters. There were cases where posters praising "heroic Red Army" used photos of American or German soldiers, which could be attributed to sloppiness.
But now this "we will thwart Russophobia" is just a verbatim copy of the original with just swastika removed... 🤦♂️
None of the media who reported it can actually post the original picture as they would be prosecuted for... promoting Nazi ideology.
@kravietz but this is not the Kremlin press, this is some kind of amateurish information sheet in the police department.
@kravietz The output of the "sheet" reads: "prepared for printing by the 5th department of the UMPO URLS in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region." It stands for the 5th department of educational work of the Office for work with personnel. Sometimes the abbreviation is followed by the name of the performer, but not this time. (C) 😂
@pr1ba I was more shocked they list "Memorial" as the "enemy of the state", on par with some McArthur Foundation and Amnesty International - which is silly, but they are at least "foreign". But Memorial is 100% Russian and had always been.
@kravietz The memorial has long become international, and has long raised uncomfortable issues such as Katyn. It didn't make him bad in any way, but it did endanger him, obviously.
In Russia, many are puzzled by this issue. Time will judge.
@kravietz in any country the police are full of stupid people, unfortunately. It doesn't matter what country it is.