“Moskovsky Komsomolets” published an article “An advertisement for a cafe with pancakes “from Putin” has become viral in Germany”, which says:
“A viral advertisement for the Russian cafe Pogrebok in Berlin appeared on the Web with references to a video with Mikhail Gorbachev about Pizza Hut and a dystopian atmosphere showing how the winter will end thanks to the current Scholz-Burbock federal government. The signal channel wrote about it.
The authors of the video embodied, as it were, the atmosphere of the coming European winter. According to their scenario, Putin not only defeated everyone, but began to be mentioned on German television as the Chancellor of Europe. At the same time, the frozen visitors of the institution not only drink and eat (kvass and pancakes), but also argue about the role of the chancellor in history.
“It was he who fired our Scholz!”, “Europe is humiliated!”, “But we don’t supply weapons to anyone anymore,” the channel quotes the heroes of the tape.
But, as is customary in commercial advertising, after a vivid emotional impression, the consumer receives very real information about the product: “thanks to Putin, there are delicious pancakes and authentic kvass from the Pogrebok establishment in Berlin.”
Earlier, RIA FAN, which is associated with Prigozhin’s “troll factory”, spoke about this in an article under the heading “German cafe released an advertisement in which visitors drink for Putin.”
In fact, there is no cellar cafe in Berlin. The video is a parody of the famous 1997 Pizza Hut commercial starring Mikhail Gorbachev. Some lines of frozen characters sitting in a cafe in frosty winter clothes and arguing about Putin are exactly repeating the phrases from the Pizza Hut advertisement (“thanks to him we have freedom”), others paint an absurd picture of the future of Germany (“it was he who fired our Scholz”, “ I haven’t been able to wash myself for half a year”, “but we don’t supply weapons to anyone anymore”). In the final, everyone drinks together for Putin, because thanks to him they have Russian pancakes and kvass. Putin himself, unlike Gorbachev in the original advertisement, does not appear in the frame, but cafe patrons see him on the screen of a tiny pocket TV. The caption "Kanzler von Europa" is overlaid on his image.
The video is clearly not of German origin. Its participants speak German, but their speech is muffled by the Russian translation, but for some reason the video is provided with German subtitles. There is no option without a Russian translation on the network. The Ukrainian edition of StopFake identified one of the actors as a person registered on several Russian websites, where he offers tutoring services.
The video was published on the Vening YouTube channel, which publishes exclusively pro-Kremlin content. The characterization of the video as “viral” is clearly the work of Kremlin propagandists: the story appeared on November 21 and gained only 3.1 thousand views in three days. And the fact that it is designed for a German audience is completely impossible to believe, given the lack of an option without a Russian translation.
Judging by the fact that RIA FAN reported about the "advertising" on the day of its first appearance on YouTube, it is likely that the "troll factory" was involved in the filming of the video.
In October 2017, RT-owned Ruptly ran a story that a New York restaurant in honor of Putin's birthday included a special 1952-weight burger on the menu (because Putin was born in 1952). The plot shown by the Russian federal TV channels turned out to be fake, no “Putinburger” ever existed
For comparison: the real inscription on the window of the Munich wine bar on the Residenzstraße is “We don’t pour Putin”.
