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Lemon grenades, painted like Easter eggs. The art appeared seven years ago in the Donbas area of anti-terrorist operation (Ukr.: ATO) among the Ukrainian military and was first publicly discussed in the reportage "The Offensive Easter eggs: The ATO fighters paint grenades with Easter patterns" on the TV News Service channel on April 11, 2015 (TSN 2015).
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The paper analyses digital folklore and humor as a weapon in Ukraine's defensive war with Russia. The discussion is focused on the specifics, forms, genres, and scope of the Ukrainian people's cyber war against Russia's propaganda from the perspective of ordinary people's ability to influence an ongoing conflict in real time via virtual conversatio...
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... Putin in the foreground can be seen in the following author's comic on Twitter (Fig. 8), "Pariah Olympics 2022" (Camley Cartoons 2022), which has also become quite popular in the networks. A further illustration from public domain of the war-born art of Easter-egg painting on grenades, called "the combat Easter eggs," contains no verbal elements (Fig. 9). An entire collection of funny visual metaphors which refer to various aspects of Russian propagandistic viewpoint at the history of Ukraine can be singled out. For example, the following picture (Fig. 10) The statue of Lenin in the above montaged picture replaces the posture of Lybid′, a legendary co-founder of the city of Kyiv. The ...
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... Syncretic deconstruction of Russian geopolitical, cultural, and historical narratives by means of comical pictures, memes, and cartoons extends in the strategy of creating a paradox, which mostly unravels a conceptual conflict between the image and inscription (as in Fig. 7, 8, 12, 13) or a cognitive conflict encoded in the image itself (as in Fig. 3, 9, ...
