Russian Activists and Stone Nipples

Yes, “activists” are stupid everywhere. Here is an example of recent Russian activism. I translated the quote with Google Translate and changed not a word so that people don’t think I manipulate these news to make Russians look particularly deranged:

Activist from Bashkiria Rasul Akhiyaretdinov turned to Vladimir Putin with a request to remake the sculpture “The Motherland Calls.” In his opinion, the monument has “provocatively protruding nipples,” which provokes bloggers to “touch” them in photos or videos, reports v1.ru.

Akhiyaretdinov said that he talked with representatives of the Muslim and Orthodox clergy and realized that none of them liked the look of the monument. He believes that the Soviet Union made many mistakes, one of which is this statue.

“Our mother cannot look like that. We demand reconstruction. Volgograd residents want to hide the shameful places of this monument,” the social activist concluded.

https://www.m24.ru/news/obshchestvo/09022024/664853

Ha-ha, you’ll say, but it’s not all fun and games. A young woman was arrested in Russia last year for doing something with the statue’s nipples that in some way furthered the goals of Nazism. This is the official charge, and please don’t ask me what Nazism has to do with the statue and its nipples. I also have no idea how the woman in question managed to reach the nipples of a 280-feet-tall statue but there you have it. Follow the above link for the whole story.

Here is the statue with the shameful nipples:

The Russian “activist” is right, not even in the prudish USSR did people make a big deal out of the nipples. The statue is hideous but I can’t wait to see how Russians will dress it up to cover its “shameful places.” Maybe a burqa is in order, given where the country is moving demographically.