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Gennady Rakitin
Gennady Rakitin () is a hoax and the name of a fictional Russian poet created by an anonymous group of anti-Putin Russian exiles led by Andrey Zakharov. In mid-2023, they began to translate Nazi propagandistic poems, written in the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany to celebrate Nazism, fascism, and to honor Adolf Hitler, into Russian with minimal changes and published those poems as patriotic verses celebrating Russia's war in Ukraine and the Russian leader and President Vladimir Putin on a Russian social media platform. The barely disguised Nazi poems drew significant attention in Russia, duping people from all walks of society that include Kremlin officials and nearly a hundred State Duma deputies and even winning some influential poetry competition awards. In June 2024, after finally giving up on Russian authorities getting the message, the Russian exiles revealed that Gennady Rakitin was a hoax and the Z poems were translated from old Nazi poems. According to the participants, thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoax
A hoax (plural: hoaxes) is a widely publicised falsehood created to deceive its audience with false and often astonishing information, with the either malicious or humorous intent of causing shock and interest in as many people as possible. Some hoaxers intend to eventually unmask their representations as having been a hoax so as to expose their victims as fools; seeking some form of profit, other hoaxers hope to maintain the hoax indefinitely, so that it is only when skeptical people willing to investigate their claims publish their findings, that the hoaxers are finally revealed as such. History Zhang Yingyu's '' The Book of Swindles'' ( 1617), published during the late Ming dynasty, is said to be China's first collection of stories about fraud, swindles, hoaxes, and other forms of deception. Although practical jokes have likely existed for thousands of years, one of the earliest recorded hoaxes in Western history was the drummer of Tedworth in 1661. The communication of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Anacker
Heinrich Anacker (29 January 1901 – 14 January 1971) was a Swiss-Germans, German author. Anacker was born in Buchs, Aargau. He entered National Socialist circles in Vienna in 1922, joined the Sturmabteilung, SA, and after 1933 lived in Berlin as a freelance writer. He wrote a spate of SA and Hitler Youth songs and was considered the "lyricist of the Brown Front"; he won the 1934 Dietrich Eckart Prize and the 1936 NSDAP Prize for Art. Nonetheless, after the war he was classified as only minimally incriminated. His poetry collections include ''Die Trommel'' (The Drum; 1931), ''Der Aufbau'' (Uplift; 1936), and ''Glück auf, es geht gen Morgen'' (Hurrah, It Will Soon Be Morning; 1943). :Brothers, what will remain from our time? :Runes will forever glow! :Our bodies will disappear :As dust in the winds they will blow. :It was we who built the streets, :That our grandchildren first saw complete; :Along them, cars will boldly whiz, :For a hundred and a thousand years. :What we wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
