{"id":1449382,"date":"2022-04-21T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449382"},"modified":"2022-04-21T17:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:00:39","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-ukrainian-children-lined-up-in-a-nazi-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-ukrainian-children-lined-up-in-a-nazi-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show Ukrainian Children Lined Up In A Nazi Formation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-ukrainian-children-lined-up-in-a-nazi-formation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449382&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Astrav\/posts\/5206091846103245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid%3D4938035372983842%26set%3Da.260107577443335&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1650630379184000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1PCgbn3SxC9QDDQL34ZGOl\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows Ukrainian school children lined up in the shape of a swastika.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image was taken in Russia in 2016 and shows individuals celebrating the 55th anniversary of Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin\u2019s voyage to space.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a \u201cspecial military operation\u201d Feb. 24 directed at the \u201cdemilitarization and denazification\u201d of Ukraine, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/23\/world\/europe\/putin-announces-a-military-operation-in-ukraine-as-the-un-security-council-pleads-with-him-to-pull-back.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. Scholars have refuted Putin\u2019s claim that Ukraine was in need of \u201cdenazification,\u201d an allegation that sparked international backlash for being \u201coffensive and factually wrong,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/01\/1083677765\/putin-denazify-ukraine-russia-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>An image shared on Facebook seemingly calls this understanding into question. It shows what appears to be a group of people, some holding balloons, formed into the shape of a swastika. \u201cThis is Lviv,\u201d reads part of the post. \u201cJust schoolchildren. Just celebrated Hitler\u2019s birthday 20 April, In Ukraine, in which, as you know, there is no Nazism.\u201d Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. <span class=\"topic-body__title\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/28\/fact-check-putin-hitler-time-magazine-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A Genuine Time Magazine Cover Related To The Invasion Of Ukraine?)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This claim is false. A reverse image search revealed the same photo was published by the Russian-language news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/lenta.ru\/news\/2019\/11\/14\/fiftyfive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lenta.ru<\/a> in 2019, years before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The article explains the photo shows a flash mob that had gathered in the Kemerovo region of Russia in 2016 to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin\u2019s 1961 voyage to space. The image shows the group forming the number 55, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lenta.ru\/news\/2019\/11\/14\/fiftyfive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlet<\/a>. The article also mentions that Russian police later mistook the formation for a swastika.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>A video of the 2016 event was shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D_tEHGmG5Dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTub<\/a>e at the time by the Russian news outlet GTRK Penza. The footage shows the group had formed the number 55, not a swastika.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Facebook allegedly shows Ukrainian school children lined up in the shape of a swastika.Verdict: False The image was taken in Russia in 2016 and shows individuals celebrating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":1449394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}