Hello from Mordor! Let me show you some anti-war leaflets I’ve painted.
“Motherland is asking to stop” (an allusion to the soviet poster “Motherland is calling”)
“Don’t / please / I want to live / Please / Please”
Yeah… I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory.
Stephen King is right, you know. Putin must be killed before he pushes the button. Looks like no one’s taking him seriously anymore, but remember: that piece of shit ALWAYS chooses the worst option. God, I hope CIA is working with his inner circle….
“Can’t say “war”? / OK / This is not a war / This is terror”.
Banditry, terrorism, genocide. Honestly, they’re gonna regret banning "war".
The other two leaflets are based on my favorite song of the moment, called “This will pass”. It became sort of an anti-Putin hymn, almost as hopeful as it is angry.
"A wet plastic bag on her head, / electric marks on her hand, / my Russia is behind bars, but believe me: / this will pass!"
"All will pass, everything passes sometime / There will be a year, a day, an instant / Yesterday’s dictator will lie alone in the morgue, / now just a dead old man"
[the tag: V. V. Putin]
Leaflets are hardly an efficient tool for changing your opponents’ minds but they are perfect for supporting your allies. There’s a special brand of Kremlin propaganda for those who don’t buy the basic nonsense about nazis in Ukraine or NATO threatening Russia. The message is this: “80% of Russians support Putin and the “special operation”. If you disagree, you are alone. A misfit, an outcast, an oddity”. They keep waving some dubious polls in our faces and plastering cities with ZZZwastikas. And it’s working. I feel like this is Putin’s only success in this whole endeavor. He’s convinced most people in and out of Russia that Russians actually want this war, despite the numerous signs to the contrary (like the violent aggression towards Z-billboards and Z-cars, mysterious fires and derailments all over the country, etc). This narrative is very comfortable for him and hugely demoralizing for us, so fighting it and showing we are everywhere is actually important. Must be encouraging to come out of your building in the morning to the promise of Putin’s impending doom. I hope it helps a little. I’m not brave enough to burn police buses yet. My jokerization is progressing quickly, though, so who knows.
P. S. I’m awful at traditional art, so there’s some massive digital cheating happening here and there. The paper versions I actually pasted in the streets are not that pretty.
