The theme of the war in Ukraine has become a key theme in the Rosenmontag masquerade, which is traditionally held in Germany on Maslenitsa. Participants of the procession portrayed the Russian dictator as a bloody killer. DW reports..
On Monday, February 20, the Rosenmontag masquerade procession took place in Germany, which is the end of the carnival season.. This year, the participants of the procession mainly focused on the war in Ukraine.. Carnivals were held in the cities of Dusseldorf, Cologne and Mainz. Particular attention was paid to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In Dusseldorf, where carnival is preferred by the most politicized, a puppet in the form of Putin bathing in a bloody bath was paraded through the streets. Moreover, the bath is made in the colors of the Ukrainian national flag..
He was also depicted as a vampire passing the planet through a meat grinder..
The Germans also showed Putin kissing the devil, using as a reference the famous photo of the kiss between the leader of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev and the head of the German Democratic Republic Erich Honecker in 1979..
The Germans did not bypass the predicament of the Russian army, which turned out to be much weaker than it was thought before the invasion of the territory of Ukraine.. They ridiculed the Russian army with a picture of a tank on bicycle wheels.
Carnival participants ridiculed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his delay with the help of Ukraine. They showed Scholz being pushed in the back by a bull with a blue and yellow flag attached to its tail..
The surname Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann was also written on the bull - this is a German parliamentarian, head of the defense committee of the Bundestag, who, in fact, from the beginning of the Russian invasion, insists on increased German support for Ukraine.
Rosenmontag is the traditional end of the carnival season, starting in Germany on November 11. This year's carnival took place for the first time in three years - in previous seasons it was missed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Recall that in the summer Putin issued a decree on the destruction of products prohibited by sanctions. This caused a flurry of jokes among the creators of phototoads..