Suspicions that something was amiss during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium had spread across social media when the tsar’s words were oddly interrupted and replaced with a patriotic song during the live broadcast of the event became. Putin “reappeared” shortly thereafter and the Kremlin had spoken of a technical problem during the broadcast, but it was hypothesized that the mega-event celebrating the anniversary of Crimea’s annexation to Russia on Friday, March 18 , was partially “built”. through propaganda.
The Russian media speaks of 100,000 people in the stadium and maybe as many outside, but some passages of the direct flow raise suspicions of “fake”. The show Quarto Grado, hosted by Gianluigi Nuzzi on Rete 4, showed them on Friday March 18: an anonymous girl in a red coat lands in the stands next to another young woman on charges. The two are framed with a smile by the director, but the shot looks almost identical to what was broadcast during an event last year at the same stadium for the same anniversary, on March 18, 2021. Pictures from a year ago show Putin with a similar look , but with different clothes than yesterday, white shirt and jacket with fur hood, did not wear the “famous” Loro Piana on Friday.
The cameras scan for faces in the cheering crowd, and the two girls appear, one wearing a pink hood, the other wearing a red cloak. The same ones framed, with the same clothes, even yesterday. In short, it’s possible that Friday’s event of speaking to Russia and sending threatening messages to the West while the war in Ukraine rages on was “seasoned” at least with archival images. Was the crowd less cheering than expected? Not to mention that the Ukrainian media showed some videos showing boos and public protests at Putin’s speech at Luzhniki Stadium. Falsification, propaganda, counter-information: The Russian invasion plays a part here too.
Yellow on Putin’s speech.
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– QuartoGrado (@QuartoGrado) March 18, 2022