A satirical sculptor from Düsseldorf has expressed bewilderment after Russian prosecutors charged him in a Moscow court with criminally defaming the country’s army.
Jacques Tilly, 62, is Germany’s most prominent designer of carnival floats and has spent 40 years creating outsized and grotesque papier-mâché models of figures including President Trump, Angela Merkel and Baroness May of Maidenhead.
Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, his floats have repeatedly mocked President Putin’s brutality.
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This year’s float for the Düsseldorf carnival depicted Trump and Putin shaking hands, with President Zelensky crushed in their grip and haemorrhaging blood, along with the caption: “Hitler-Stalin pact 2.0”.
Previous editions have shown Putin choking on a map of Ukraine and posing naked alongside Trump and President Xi of China, with a gigantically enlarged scrotum emblazoned with the words “Make Russia great again”.
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And what do you think?
Did Bentik want to slander this individual soldier or the institution and their unchallenged recruitment drive at schools?
If Bentik actually did not want to slander the individual soldier, he would have apologized. So I believe he did want to slander him, because the soldier is a soldier.
Also obviously the recruitment drive was challenged.
if he wanted to slander him because the soldier is a soldier, isn‘t that very, very close to Soldaten sind Mörder?
When you say obviously the recruitment drive was challenged, who are you thinking of? Clearly not the school?