Russia published fake quotes from L. DiCaprio, M. Jovovich, N. Portman about the Red Army and the USSR

In fact, none of the actors said the phrases attributed to them, notes the project “Blokirovščik botov”.

On Monday, Kremlin bots posted 28 messages with pictures of 13 stars and phrases about the Soviet Union and the Red Army. This campaign was carried out by bots from the Russian foreign disinformation network Dvoinik.

The messages were in English, German and French. The campaign organizers attributed the quotes to David Duchovny, Milla Jovovich, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison Ford, Zoe Kravitz, Winona Ryder, Dianna Agron, Mila Kunis, Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Connelly, Natalie Portman and Anton Yelchin.

The stars were credited with the following quote: “We are being forced into a distorted history of World War II. Supposedly the United States won alone” (to Harrison Ford), “We generally think that Auschwitz was liberated by the United States. It was actually the Red Army that did it. The Soviet Union saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from annihilation” (Natalie Portman), “No government could have resisted the terrible brutal wounds that Hitler inflicted on Russia. But Soviet Russia not only survived and recovered from those wounds, but dealt the German army a crushing blow that no other army in the world could have dealt it” (attributed to David Duchovny).

Ukrainian-born actress Mila Kunis attributed the phrase to a Kremlin “bot” that “people whose idols are Hitler’s comrades came to power in Ukraine.” Further in the quote, M. Kunis allegedly calls “to remind the whole world of the role of the Soviet Union in liberating the world from Nazism”.

The quote also attributed to the deceased actor

The independent portal “Agentstvo” did not find such quotes from these movie stars whose images were used by Kremlin “bots”. A. Yeltsin, to whom bots attributed the phrase about Western attempts to “rewrite the history of World War II and downplay Russia’s role”, died in 2016.

A week before May 9 Russian-linked fake news sites and Telegram channels also circulated the alleged “news” that the Paris City Council had allegedly decided to rename the city’s longest bridge, the Pont-Aval, to the Red Army Bridge. The campaign involved websites and channels previously associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin’s troll factory, blogger Alex Liberty said. Paris City Hall has said that renaming the bridge is not under consideration.

This is not the first time that pro-Kremlin social media accounts have attributed phrases in favor of Moscow to prominent people that they did not actually say. At the end of April, Russian-linked accounts circulated a fake video of Katrin Himmler, in which the granddaughter of Heinrich Himmler’s brother allegedly reacts to the initiative to repatriate young Ukrainians from Europe and urges “not to hand over Ukrainians to the bloody dictator Zelensky”. K. Himmler herself, answering the question of “Agentstvo”, called the video a fake.

in 2023 in November, Kremlin “bots” circulated fake quotes from Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, Ronaldo and other stars allegedly demanding that the West stop helping Ukraine.