“Protest Action against Kony2012 propaganda. A museum in Stockholm is organizing an exhibition of pictures of the warlord Konys crimes right after Invisible Children, a pro-imperialist lobby group, launched its campaign Kony2012. We condemn Konys war crimes, but the world needs peace, not war. If we are talking about war criminals let’s talk about Obama: He has many more lives on his conscience than Kony. Invisible Children’s campaign is to get the United States and the West to invade Uganda in the hunt for Kony. If they were honest in their attempts to stop the war crimes they had been lobbying to send Obama to the Hague instead!”

- Nordisk Ungdom

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A short animation from the book Drawings from the Gulag. The book consists of over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev — author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volumes I, II, III — describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918.

His work as a prison guard allowed Baldaev to travel across the former USSR and witness scenes of everyday life in the Gulag first-hand, chronicling this previously closed world from both sides of the wire. The drawings, made during the Communist period, form a devastating document, a haunting echo of the works of Varlam Shalamov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

With every vignette, Baldaev brings his characters to vivid life: from the lowest zek (inmate) to the most violent tattooed vor (thief), the practices and inhabitants of the Gulag system are revealed in incredible and shocking detail. He documents the contempt shown by the authorities to those imprisoned, and the transformation of these citizens into survivors or victims. This graphic depiction exposes the systematic methods of torture and mass murder of millions undertaken by the administration, as well as the atrocities committed by criminals on their fellow inmates.