Not sure what I think of the ethics in this, but… check out what an unnamed street artist has done to the Soviet Army monumnet in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In my opinion it looks aweseome, however, I think it’s crossed the (perhaps imaginary) line between street art and vandalism by being painted on something so significant to the people that put it there.
Street art done on a boring drab wall that needs some brightening up is okay, know what I mean? Come on someone back me up here.
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Yeh, I agree, definitely the wrong place to do something like that. Monuments like that are there to remind society as a whole about sacrifices but alsoto give some comfort to the relatives and friends of those who died. With them in mind, whatever the rights and wrongs involved, it is horribly insensitive.
And what about if there was monument of Nazzi warriors in Moscow? What will be more offensive to paint it or to put flowers on it? Same thing here. Russian army didn’t bring liberation of Bulgaria. There was bloody massacre in Bulgaria after invading the soviet troops. Communists killed ten thousands bulgarians without trial or sentence. And after that – 45 years wild feudalism. There wasn’t even one soviet soldier killed in Bulgaria!!! Nowadays communists and their children still got the power – political and financial.
Presence of this big monument in the center of the Capital of Bulgaria is arrogant demonstration of shamelessness!
http://bg360.net/pano/sofia/popart-soviet-army_en.php
Yeah, this isn’t so ethically awful. The monument celebrates the “liberation” of Bulgaria, which in fact was placed there by Soviet conquerors, not liberators. I’m surprised it hasn’t been defaced before now. This adequately ridicules the notion that Soviets were liberators, and I have no issue with that.
A bunch of commie ignoramuses and Obama Zombies are chosen to tell us what their twisted psyches make of the Bulgarians striking back at being forced to harbor statues honoring the most evil army of world war two. If it was defilement of American military monuments these same cretins would be demanding artistic freedom. But they allow no one to sully the striking force of world communism. These idiotic and cunning communist wiggers deserve only annihilation of the type used by Stalin on millions of their ideological brethren. Damn you bigots who are given preferential treatment on the internet. I regret being a wounded and disabled veteran who once served a nation of snakes and sheep.
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The man who did that is an anonymous genius. Vanfdalizing monuments is bad, but this here is a piece of art, that mocks the tainted communist rule in Bulgaria.