Russian state media reported that the rusted Tu-72 tank brought to Berlin from Ukraine has become a shrine, a pilgrimage site for thousands of Berliners who covered it with flowers in solidarity with Russia. Want to know what actually happened? Read this.
Yet footage broadcast by Popov’s “60 Minutes” also showed AfD members tearing a Ukrainian flag off the tank and keeping people from approaching it.
It also showed Alexander von Bismarck, a well-known German supporter of Vladimir Putin, explaining it was members of his group who brought the flowers to the tank. “It is very important that we have brought 2,000 roses and laid them on the tank in front of the Russian embassy,”. “It is to show our government that it needs to start negotiating. Russia is not our enemy. We are friends. We have been building these relations for the last 30 years.”
Like the AfD leaders, Bismarck has visited Russia at the Kremlin’s invitation several times, including as a foreign observer during Putin’s presidential election in 2018. The European Union included Bismarck on its list of “The “Rebellion for Peace” rally wassaying its organizers did not support Ukraine and were thus “on the wrong side of history.” Katja Mast, a representative of the Social Democratic Party in the Bundestag, said the organizers “serve Russian propaganda.
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