leadership Germany's. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. russian disinformation attacks. putin's regime

The kremlin's information manipulation apparatus spares no effort to portray modern Germany as a threat to the world, as a renewed form of nationalism with aggressive tendencies. russian propaganda screams in its media resources that Germany's new rearmament plan is preparation for direct armed conflict with its neighbours. Of course, these provocative slogans have no basis in reality. 

russian propagandists directly accuse German Chancellor Friedrich Merz of ‘seeking revenge for the defeat of the Third Reich,’ and some attribute to him the status of ‘descendant of the Nazis.’ In general, the chancellor is subject to powerful disinformation attacks. As of now, more than 30 cases are known. 
In 2025, russia is also increasingly accusing Germany of preparing for direct intervention in the war in Ukraine: ‘Very soon, German soldiers will be standing at Russia's borders, using sophisticated Western military equipment.’ This is a baseless fabrication designed to portray Germany as an aggressor, ‘replacing the Americans as a strategic sponsor’ of the war against russia. Another goal is to awaken among its own citizens, as well as the citizens of the former republics of the USSR, a ‘historical memory’ of the struggle against Nazi Germany in the 20th century. It is also an attempt to recruit additional ‘ideologically motivated’ people into its army. In this way, the kremlin is building its ‘defensive position’ — that ‘russia is forced to respond to threats.’ Even putin's press secretary is already talking about this openly. 
In all these stories, the russians are silent about the fact that they were the ones who started the unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, which has grown into the largest military conflict since World War II, and that it is the russian special services that are carrying out sabotage throughout Europe, recruiting new agents, and forming alliances with other dictatorial regimes.
A parallel track of this disinformation campaign is the internal division of society in Germany. The russian agency RIA Novosti published an interview with Waldemar Ebergardt, a member of the russian-German Chamber of Foreign Trade, who was presented as the head of the construction company Bavaria-Bau. In it, he spoke about the advantages of the Chinese automotive industry over the German one, about the fact that companies throughout Germany are going bankrupt due to the loss of the russian market, and also about the fact that in russia, unlike Germany, it is ‘comfortable and safe.’
Interestingly, no one in Germany has heard of Waldemar Ebergardt and his company Bavaria-Bau: there is no information about him in German, except for one article in the Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung, a russian newspaper that has a German version. The article contains the biography of ‘Waldemar Ebergardt’, who is referred to in the article as ‘Vladimir Eber’. It turns out that he was born in Novosibirsk to a family of russian Germans and moved to Pforzheim in south-western Germany at the age of 14.
Through its agents, russian propaganda tries to promote fictitious stories about economic woes and terrible mistakes in social policy, often using the ‘migration crisis’ as an example. At the same time, the evidence base is usually very weak or completely fabricated. Like in the story about Chinese cars replacing German ones. 
With this material, we are once again trying to prove to our readers the truth that putin's regime will not abandon its aggressive and deceitful policy of ‘submit or disappear.’ And the issue here is not only Ukraine, but the fact that any democratic state is a target for the kremlin. Everything is exactly according to the model of the third reich, now russian.
Based on materials from Stopfake.org, EuVsDisinfo.eu
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