Russian Justice Ministry’s new online ‘sovereignty’ exhibition includes a Nazi propaganda film calling Hitler the ‘liberator of the Russian people’ — with no explanation

A new section devoted to an exhibition called “Protecting the Sovereignty of the Russian State: History and the Present Day” has appeared on the website of Russia’s Justice Ministry.

The project has several parts: an attractively designed registry of “foreign agents” and sections containing the country’s history, photographs, and documentary films.

Among the latter, unexpectedly, is a propaganda film about Hitler, presented with no context whatsoever.

After the launch, many people noticed that the text on the site, full of errors and nonsensical phrases, reads as if AI had generated it.

Meduza went through the site so you don’t have to.

Here’s what else is on it. ...