Some examples of black PR against a candidate from the United Opposition Oleh Medunytsia have recently appeared in district #157
The latest example – in the evening on 22 October, when citizens of the district had found leaflet with candidate's picture, on which his image was changed to be similar to Hitler's. In particular, such leaflet was found on Zalyvna St.
The leaflet was designed in black and white, without date-line. The cutline says: "Picture from home records." There is also a slogan: "O. Medunytsia. NATIONAL FASCISTS from OUN-UPA want to be in power".
The day before, Sumy citizens have found two leaflets in their mailboxes. First was in Russian, entitled "Fascists are coming" with a subheading "The local candidate is a reflection of the team!" with a slogan: "Citizens of Sumy! Let’s oust the fascists plague from our city!" The leaflet contains a picture and short information about following politicians: Yuliia Tymoshenko, Oleh Tiahnybok, Vitalii Klychko, Oleh Medunytsia. There are many grammatical mistakes in the text.
The date-line of leaflet informs that the client was PE "Russkoie Yedinstvo" (Russian Unity), number of printed copies - 50,000, responsible for printing - S. Aksenov.
The other leaflet – was an appeal from "The Airborne Assault Troops (VDV) Committee" to the citizens of Sumy city. The text of appeal: "O. Medunytsia was evading military service on a position of a teacher in Severynivka village for 6 years." Oleh Medunytsia was also charged with selling humanitarian aid from Canada – a delivery truck full of canned stewed meat.
During a press-conference on 22 October, the candidate stated that all these accusations are ridiculous.
"I affirm, that issues which are raised in these leaflets is outrageous lie and ravings." - said the candidate. He also assured, that he's going to inform the police.
We remind, that some time before unknown young men disrupted candidate's meeting with voter: and someone has written phrases against Oleh Medunytsia on fences and buildings.
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