"There was no Auschwitz in the original!"

From the computer indie “shooting” about the death camp, they made a political provocation and quarrel Poland with Ukraine. Interview with the author of the game

The Polish Institute of National Memory applied to the district prosecutor's office of Warsaw with a statement on the possible commission of several serious crimes. The first, according to the relevant article of the Criminal Code of Poland, concerned the insult of the people or the state of Polish. The second was associated with the propaganda of fascism and with public calls to hatred on a national basis. The third had signs of insulting the population group due to its national or ethnicity. The prosecutor's office reported that the investigation is still at the stage of collecting evidence.

But the popular Rzeczpospolita newspaper has actually indicated the criminals with the heading of its material: “They want to make money on the tragedy in Auschwitz - the Ukrainian computer game under the Prosecutor’s Lupa.” Such a signal seemed to be waiting for sites that call themselves “anti -fascist”, that is, glorifying the “Russian spring” in the Crimea and in the Donbass. They picked up the theme, once again betrayed the anathema “Kyiv junta” and rushed to deepen the moat that arose between the Polish and Ukrainian institutions in memory on the field of historical grievances and conflicts. Although there is no smoke without fire?

On August 24, just on the Independence Day of Ukraine (so coincided), the journalist Voinovsko from the weekly DO Rzeczy wrote on Twitter about what the teaser of the new computer “shooting”, which was prepared by the Ukrainian company Alien Games, has discovered on the network.

The place where the game with the name The Cost of Freedom (“Price of Freedom”) is unfolding is Auschwitz concentration camp. The arch with a fatal inscription flashes in the frame, the railway tracks, tower of security are visible in the chronicle ...

Players can, if desired, reincarnate the Nazis who shoot prisoners and send to gas chambers, or to prisoners trying to take possession of their executioners, kill them and break out for the thorny wire.

The outcome is not predetermined in advance, it all depends on the skills of future “SS men” and “prisoners”.

Behind the scenes, for more realism, not only automatic queues, barking dogs and heartbreaking screams, but also chauvinist replicas sound, and Aushwitz himself is called the Polish Death Camp.

Chosnovo made a remark: the accuracy of the information found is in doubt.

On YouTube, the next issues of announcements began to arise, everything is tougher and tougher - for example, a scene of burning prisoners in a gas chamber.

They were posted to the network by users with accounts that appeared literally the day before. In the discussions, two directions were competed: who is guilty of the Holocaust and anti -Semitism in all its abomination. Pure game computer passions predictably left the radar.

An important point: the voice acting of a video created allegedly by a Ukrainian developer was in Polish ...

With the help of search engines, Chosenovsko “calculated” the author of “Freedom prices”. It turned out that in the announcement the company existed in the person of one person. Google pointed to 34-year-old Odessa Dmitry Dybin.

“... 196 works in the portfolio, the main specialization is video. At your service-infographics, 3D graphics, installation, printing design. Experience in the Russian market for more than ten years, ”it included in the resume, which Dmitry once in search of orders posted on one of the Russian specialized resources.

It was this moment that became decisive in the reasoning of the Polish journalist.

“It looks like a rough Russian provocation, which has been prepared using a person who, at least since 2012, has been cooperating with the Russian company Studcinemafest Moscow,” the journalist concluded.

The hybrid war taught to react to such details ...

On the same day, deputy Seima Uzef Brinkus from the right-winging movement Kukiz'15 (heads the punk-rock musician Pavel Kukiz) demanded from the authorities to turn to official Kyiv because of “untrue formulations in relation to the Poles” in the sensational trailer for the computer game.

Find Dmitry Dybin on Facebook and then it was easy to call him. Dybin did not hide from journalists, on the contrary, he tried to explain in the most detail as much as possible.

Interview with the author

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"The provocateur makes installation and uses our shots to incite hostility"

- If you set the name of the game The Cost of Freedom Game on YouTube, you will immediately bring you to the Polish user’s channel with the nickname Pierro Cocco ( *Italian film actor of the first half of the twentieth century - *O. M. ) that it was more often watched by my videos with a corresponding branded mark, but it, deliberately distorted. Not our video, not our voice acting, but our company is constantly mentioned as a manufacturer of the game.

In original works - Tiser, trailer - there is neither Auschwitz, nor fascists, nor other visual associations with the same, except, so to speak, competitive moment.

In the shooter, rivals are inevitably killed.

And yet. In the modern game, Battlefield-5, which enters the market, is generally proposed to play for the Nazis with Nazi symbols and kill the British ...

It was always possible to play for maniacs, to kill civilians.

Until now, if there were outrage, then within the framework of a specific “shooting” and ethical framework permitted. Here they raised a political buch ...

The District Prosecutor's Office of Warsaw would have to direct its efforts to search for this provocateur, Pierro Cocco, and not actually play along with it.

If we reason at this level, then we will come to the conclusion - to kill in computer games should be prohibited. Because it seems to be placed an equal sign between a person and a character!

But for decades in Counter-Strike, players choose who they should be for. Attention! For terrorists or for the police. Moreover, terrorists have the opportunity to lay bombs, blow them up, capture hostages. Absolute dominance of the thesis "to speak on the side of evil", right?

Let my original game be banned in Poland, for that matter. But I am against slander, against defending my reputation and attributed a political order.

- The SBU has not yet shown interest in history, which acquires the features of the international scandal?

- No, there was nothing. Turn - I will say the same as you.

If they ban it to advance further the “price of freedom”, I just stop making it.

- And what, we have an official mechanism for the ban on computer games?

- There are sites that decide for themselves whether to lay out the novelty or not. The market decides.

- That is, the moment is not fixed by law?

- No. Although, I think, the mechanisms to press and make the developer hurt, the state is in the hands. And I immediately warn that I would not prefer to publish the game or present it in a completely different perspective. But I do not see his own guilt, they say, I insulted someone with a “shooting”. Again, I repeat: “The price of freedom” was deliberately turned into an occasion for provocation.

PS

As promised, I watched the original teaser and trailer for the game. I did not find any remarks, especially antipolis, only vocalizes to the music.

Figures in striped clothes of prisoners and uniforms of figures depicting camp guards, of course, cause certain associations.

But to the case, especially criminal, you cannot sew them.