The Germans Weren’t Very Afraid of Mechanical Bears


Caption: “The Germans weren’t very afraid of the mechanical bears.”

There’s a great column at Russia! magazine titled Live From LJ. Every week, intrepid blogger Marina Galperina wades through the radioactive cesspool of the Russian blogosphere (which “conveniently, if bafflingly, revolves around LJ.”) This week, Marina discovers this incredible gem:

Ru-Lj community fail_art apologizes for their legacy of humorous-to-obscene scribbles left in textbooks by former students (or possibly, modern day forgeries), adding some “context” to the dull old pastorial and wartime pictures with ridiculous nudity, blood, peasants with nun-chucks and various insults to the Russian army. Response: “My eyes and stomach hurt.” Ditto. [Link, NSWF]

A selection of hand-picked personal favorites, after the jump!

Posted by Nadya Lev on September 14th, 2009
Filed under Art, Blogroll, Russia, Surreal, Ye Olde

5 Responses to “The Germans Weren’t Very Afraid of Mechanical Bears”

  1. Dj Dead Billy Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 10:25 am

    you have made my office a chorus line of chortles and wheezing.

  2. Marina Galperina Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    Yey!

  3. causeeffect Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    wow this is awesome!

  4. cappy Says:
    September 16th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    Well, I wouldn’t say it’s that baffling, considering Russia does own LJ now. :P

    But anyway — these are farking hilarious.

  5. JoAsakura Says:
    September 17th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    the one of the kid swatting the ducks is BRILLIANT. :dahahahah: