• AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    BTW, Berlin is already battling the evil Russian propaganda: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/dient-ein-baer-mit-einem-z-in-berlin-lichtenberg-der-russischen-propaganda-li.219243

    (source in German, but with a pic of the Z in question, headline reads: "Does a bear with a Z in Berlin-Lichtenberg serve the Russian propaganda?").

    Abridged version:

    Some guy in Berlin saw a suspicious Z on a bear statue in front of a public library and informed authorities about the Putinist agitprop. The library made it clear that this has nothing whatsoever to do with the war and that the entire statue is, in fact, completely covered in letters (it's a library, wonder if that has anything to do with all these letters). Now the guy insists that, i shit you not, "the Z is suspiciously large and you can clearly see duct tape on the edges because somebody recently put it there!", even though there's pics that are at least a year old and show the same Z on the statue.

    Meanwhile, also in Berlin, somebody covered two old :t34: on a Soviet war memorial for the soldiers who gave their lifes in the battle against fascism with giant Ukrainian flags: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/berlin-weltkriegspanzer-am-sowjetischen-ehrenmal-mit-ukraine-fahnen-verhuellt-a-bebf8d6a-36c2-49f3-b5a1-147b21b968fd

    Fortunately, no tanks were hurt in this display of imperialism, the flags could be removed without problems. Police will not investigate further as "no damage was caused to the memorial".

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Drawing a Z on a Ukrainian flag and flinging it over a statue of Martin Luther to see what kind of reaction I can get.