An unedited video that has emerged on social media appears to show that fake cheers were added to footage from Vladimir Putin’s annexation celebration at the Kremlin.
The rally, which was broadcast on state TV Friday, was also attended by officials bused in as “supporters” Friday to Moscow in order to bolster the size of the crowd, Newsweek reported.
Telegram channels and Twitter pages have since shared unedited videos from the rally, along with videos that were aired on state-run TV that night, which appear to show that cheers had been added to the recordings before they were aired.
One clip, in particular, shows famous Russian actor and director Ivan Okhlobystin delivering a deranged speech calling the invasion of Ukraine “a holy war.”
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