[skinkestek]

You see this happening in russia these days.

My favourite was from the start of the war when the guys who were supposed to plant incriminating evidence on the scene were they arrested some "terrorists" put the Sims 3 game on the scene instead of 3 sim cards and literally signed the fake documents they planted with "Signature Unclear". (Yes, real story, just search for Sims 3 and Signature Unclear.)

As I understand it I understand this was FSB (or someone elses) way of "getting even" after their boss had been publicly humiliated for proposing to not invade Ukraine. (But that - except for the public humiliation which is well documented - is just speculation on my part although I might have heard it from someone else thinking loud.)

Although sometimes I wonder if it was a genuine misunderstanding. I feel I have unusually many Russian friends and ex-colleagues, people who live outside of russia for good reasons and do not support it. Z-russians on the other hand does not strike me as the brightest bulbs in the box.

[lukan]

"just search for Sims 3 and Signature Unclear"

I did, but got lots of vague rumor stories, but nothing solid.

[skinkestek]

Here you go:

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-agents-the-sims-vide...

This article in turn links to russian state sponsored RIA Novosti, and while I generally don't trust russian state sponsored media, I make exceptions for when they admit embarrassing things, because they have little incentives to lie to get people to ridicule them.

[cyberax]

> fake documents they planted with "Signature Unclear"

"Signature Unclear" is actually a real pseudonym of a pro-Nazi author. So this particular part was at least believable.

The "Sims 3" disks (3 of them) and Bandera's books were far less so.

[skinkestek]

> "Signature Unclear" is actually a real pseudonym of a pro-Nazi author.

That was interesting, thanks!

Do you know if he is an actual Jew-hating nazi or just someone who opposes russia?

(I've learned over the last 3 years that for most russians when they think of nazism they don't think of genocide of minorities, mega-projects, Lebensborn and all that bit rather only about "war against russia")

[cyberax]

He's a real "inferior races must be exterminated" Nazi. I searched for his works when this story first came out, and yeah, he's bad.

[skinkestek]

ouch.

That is evil.

Then again, that alone us not enough for russia to strike at someone: they have more than one group of openly nazi (by western standards) soldiers fighting against Ukraine, most famously rusisch.