So, there was a cross in Kiev which they put in the memory of the soldiers and people who were killed in World War 2. Then there was (there is!) a FEMEN group that likes to go topless everywhere and protest. Previously it was a pretty wild show but still nothing compared to this. So they found this cross took the chainsaw undressed and…
Then ran away.
One thing when you disrespect feelings of believers by doing some stupid performance in a cathedral… but destroying a public property and a spiritual symbol of many at that is totaly another thing that deserves a proper punishment. This just confirms that these femen don’t have any moral principles what-so-ever… human trash.
Shame on you FEMEN group , I think you could be right with couple of things but really to hurt the fellings from old generations , is so absurd and stupid . SHAME ON YOU!!!
get your facts straight – that cross was a memorial of Stalin’s victims.
that makes it even worse. they should get 5 years
cutting down a cross and offending spirits of dead political victim to protest government?? lol women logic.
This group is getting tiresome. They have no philosophy, they apparently just want to display their bare breasts. Anybody with an internet connection can see all the bare breasts they want, with better posing and better photography. It appears that they only need husbands who will make them behave properly.
I thought the sentence that Pussy Riot received was harsh.. However this attack on a war memorial is totally unacceptable.
Same opinion, they are going too far this time, make them rebuild this.
Miserable, vandalizing scum. Insulting the people that fought and died for their Country is just plain wrong. The dressing strange and acting weird, OK, whatever. But this kind of behavior – red line, baby, or as you say, nyekulturny.
Interestingly I saw one of the same photos on a New Zealand news website and the caption was that they were cutting down the cross in protest against Pussy Riot’s members being put on trial for hollaganism, with no mention to what the cross was for. Pussy Riot having staged their protest in a church in protest against the Church’s support for Putin.
Will Putin send them to prison, too?
How, they are from Ukaine
Generally, I’m fairly tolerant of people destroying objects of religious symbolism, however, I draw the line at defacing a war memorial, especially one in the former USSR dedicated to soldiers who faught in WW2. Bad call on this, FEMEN.
Facebook commenters are so full of themselves, as if anyone gives a c*ap what they think…
In the past I have sympathized with most of what these women do, but there was absolutely no reason for their actions this time. The cross was put up to remember the thousands upon thousands who died in Kiev alone during the war. In this case, I hope these women are caught, given a taste of the billy club, tried, and jailed for a while. They should also be made to pay for a replacement cross, too. Utterly disgusting.
Allegedly, Lukashenko had his goons already did just that. After some protest in Belarus, the girls were grabbed by some cops, taken to the woods and roughed up. That’s their story, anyway… I don’t know if they would make that up.
I give up! I have never seen so stupid women
I hope they were punished.
They are going to burn in Hell for this!!!
catholic or orthodox hell?
They should be thankful they didn’t stage this stunt in Moscow. In Russia, one can go to prison for two years for a lesser crime.
Yeah, I think that is the right moment to say “there was” a group Femen…
Ok, WTF, You don’t disrespect those that died in battle, be it your enemy or your friend, this went way to far even for my somewhat revolutionary and anarchist kind of thinking just no, NO and once again NO.
This is vandalism! A right to protest is one thing, but damaging property that belongs to others is not right. At least, the photos are here, they can be identified and arrested.
I am here for the boobs and you censore it again, shame you!
no, they did
So sick of these liberal femme hippy monsters… in the old days, the KGB would promptly have them all shot. Why can’t they be sent to a Siberian gulag?
They only have one litre of water between the ears
damn i wanna see her cut her boobs off,….
If they can jail Pussy Riot, why not them?
OK, these vandal girls should be punished, not by jail sentence, but by taking them into the forest with their beloved chainsaw so they can cut a tree with it, and then make a new cross and place it in the place of old one, all by themselves.
I only wish that the photographer had caught her hair and head getting pulled into the chainsaw. I’m not a violent person but, when every member of my family has served in the armed forces of our ancestors countries, this $h1t really pi$$e$ me off. >-{
Hooliganism: In all modern countries it’s called “disorderly conduct” and is a summary offense, punished with a fine. But Russia puts those offenders in jail for two years.
Femen is right to protest. Russia needs to change, to discard their love of a “boss,” of a supreme leader who keeps order by silencing those who dissent.
And if cutting down this cross helps achieve that, khorosho.
Not all pics are censored,and not by boxes this time.Those ladies have too much free time to do stupid things like this.
Definitely going too far. Hope they do some time for this.
So sad. This is a group with good intentions. they have made a terrible mistake this time.
Atheism isn’t about disrespecting the dead.
You may despise the symbol, but this is a memorial for people who died, not for furtherance of religion and therefore this was just a pure act of unenlightened vandalism.
I’m guessing she isn’t an Atheist as she took a moment to cross herself eastern orthodox style before cutting down the cross. It’s the Church’s undue influence over government and political corruption that they rail against.
“if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.” Mikhail Bakunin
Good thoughts.
Disgusting! The soldiers that cross honored stopped the Nazis. Those stupid women should have thought about that.
How NOT to use a chainsaw!
Here is a question. Is this the real group or some fake created to cause problems? This is not in keeping with their usual antics.
It has been reported on the femen website
Too bad she didn’t get her hair caught in the chainsaw. I would have laughed.
“The cross — erected during Ukraine’s 2004-05 Orange Revolution in memory of the victims of communism — was located near the International Center for Culture and Arts in Kyiv. A topless Femen activist used a chainsaw to cut down the cross.”
Christianity prime target when jewish billionaire Geörgy Schwartz aka George Soros gives his marching orders. Dont expect Pussy & Femen to take a cr*p in a synagogue against israeli genocide on Palestinians any time soon…
Oh please. We all know how Russia would deal with the Palestinian problem if they were in Russia’s backyard.
Compare Grozny with Gaza and tell me how trated russians chechns and jews palestinians.
No, You don´t understand. Protesting in a Synagougue is anti-semitism, which is met with a public penalty, screaming a mosque is islamophobia, which again is met with ostracism, but desecrating a church is a rightful protest against an erroneously democratically elected government that refuses to give away all its oil and gas for free! This is rewarded with public applause from the west. These are the rules…
No, you don’t understand. It’s not OK, but neither is it a crime worthy of 2 years in a Russian prison either. This was a political persecution for what was a political protest, not a hate crime.
For a protest like this ina synagougue in the worst scenario israeli guards would have been shout the intruders pretending security reasons. In the light scenario the “protester” would have been beaten and imprisoned in EU contries for 5 to 7 years for antisemitism. In Israel prison up to 10 years. democracy on the rise!
Shame on them for destroying the memorial of great comrade leader Stalin!
How can a cross be a stalinist symbol when it was actually Stalin who closed the churches? Did You ever read a history book? In fact this cross rememorated the victims of WWII including the victims of Stalin!
I don’t blame to much femen. They are neurotic sociopaths and very disturbed girls who beg for little attention.
But ukrainian authorities (and citizens!) are at guilt whitout any doubt. Why they permit such idiotic acts? No reaction, no nothing?
Seems to me that ukrainians have all the faults of russians without having any of their qualities.
Better for them to became part of Russia
Ordinary Russians didn’t seem to give a crap about Pussy Riot’s anti-Putin antics either, until Putin and the Orthodox Church put them on trial for hooliganism for all the world to see. Talk about “shooting yourself in the foot”.
It’s about drwing a line, in a mild manner.
If you are so interesed about freedom what about Julius Assange?, the well known terrorist of the “democratic and free world”.
What about Assange? He should focus more on exposing Putin and Russia’s faults too, not just the west. But that would just get him assassinated. I don’t think he’s that committed to freedom and transparency.
US hipocrisy is far more important to rest of the world.
You all are not very well educated, aren’t you? Putin can’t do shit about them because they are not citizens of Russia, but Ukraine. Because they speak very simmilar languages (at least to western ears) doesn’t mean they are from the same country. Ukraine was part of USSR, when it collapsed, got separated and now it’s sovereign country.
Trashing down this cross just means that the russina political repression isn’t over yet, and it was erected too early. And you people who can’t understand what they are doing, educate yourselves, because when police baton lands on your back, it will be too late for you to start thinking if you country’s leadership is going the wrong way.
Probably you were in a hurry and didn’t get the message. I never said that Putin can do something about femen. I sad that for ukrainians who can’t handle a state(or society) is better to be part of Russia. The ethnic (and cultural) distance between russians and ukrainians is less that between let’s say baviarians and prussians in Germany. About the “Ukraina, sovereign country” let’s be serious: Ukraina beg for EU because is incapable to stand on their own feet. So russian solution is the best, beeing from the same family.
You explained me perfectly: because of russian repression femen cut down a religious and historical symbol of all ukrainians who died for their country in WWII. Amazing! I’m exepecting femen to blow up monument of Prince Vladimir,demolish chersonesos and burn Lvov only to demonstrate their love for freedom and loathing for russian occupation which “lands batons on their back”
Russia is Ukraine’s past, not it’s future. Maybe if Russians had treated them better…but they didn’t.
Says who? Prophet “America”?
No prophet, just a simple observation that Ukraine has been less then thrilled to embrace Russia post Soviet Union. Funny how little things like pre-Stalinist, Stalinist and post Stalinist atrocities affect ones judgment of their neighbors.
But hey i could be wrong. Ukraine might yet change course and embrace Russia instead of the West, or both if Russia will allow.
I hate religion, but this was about the respect to the victims of World War 2.
They need to be punished!
Question is why a cross to memorialize war dead? Could they have remembered them just as meaningfully without making it about Christianity?
When I saw these photos I wanted to address just how pathetic and insulting it is to destroy a memorial dedicated to those who fought in WWII. I would have felt the same way for any other country’s memorials for their soldiers as well. But I am glad to see that everyone has already reiterated the fact that this is an absolutely disgusting example of defacing not only a group of valiant soldiers who fought to the very last, but also a nation in its attempt to honor them. I dearly hope these people are found and convicted and tried for the atrocities they have committed. And I hope they use these very photographs to do so.
Good that Jesus had mercy on her, that stupid twat, she could have amputated one of her brests with that chainsaw. A very dangerous thing what she did.
She can thank the mord that she wasn’t dismembered during proces… Femen has some accountability to respound here if they want to be forgiven.. Bult a new cross and apologise.
Furter more, your name has been made Femen = stupid adolescent girls with no brain.
The Lord said, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing…
Jesus and your imaginary friend “The Lord” had nothing to do with her good fortune. He was just a man who died 2000+ years ago, and “the Lord” is a figment of your overactive imagination.
that’s your opinion
That is kind of sad.
femen is a bunch of trashy morally bankrupt woman using their tits to be seen and heard. Would you want one to be the mother of your children? Not me, they are common whores who use their bodies as lust tools
Apparently this was in protest at the treatment of Pussy Riot.
http://attackthesystem.com/2012/08/18/topless-pussy-riot-supporter-chainsaws-cross/
Probably FEMEN will explain. I don’t understand.
Wow, that’s messed up.
Counter productive to be sure…..
Why would they do this? Am I missing something here?
That girl just needs a kiss big kiss.
These broads need a couple years learning to be good wives and mothers, to plan and cook meals for their family, to do laundry and clean house. Oh, and have respect for other people’s religious beliefs and icons. For THIS they need a good 24 hours of the lash.
They stand up and fight for what they imagine will be a better future for their children. Someone has to do it.
Dessa vez elas extrapolaram, isso não se faz!
Respeito e dignidade aos que morreram em guerras deve ser preservado.
Coisa feia, muito feia.
:-/
Russia being dismantled piece by piece
Bur seriously why did they cut the cross down I amuse it was for a cause?
“Russia being dismantled piece by piece” – Good. Had Russia not built their empire on foreign soil there wouldn’t be any need to dismantle it. Good riddance.
What foreign soil? Apparently you know neither Russian history nor geography.
Well, Americans cannot give any lessons concerning building “their empire on foreign soil”.
People think that they have freedom to do anything that they want, but when they don’t have the courage to face the responsability or consequences for their actions (i.e. Pussy Riot, Assange, etc)
Ya see your not doing a very good job on telling us all why these things are happening in all your photos. The FEMEN activists cut down the cross in protest against the Orthodox Church and the sentencing of Pussy Riot
http://www.mizozo.com/world/08/2012/17/femen-cut-down-the-independence-square-cross-with-a-chainsaw-nsfw.html
I didn’t see any action of FEMEN against persecution of Julian Assange? Interesting.
So I guess what you are implying is that if you burn down your neighborhood church as a “protest” against criminals being sentenced, then it’s all OK?
@CalDre, Since when does cutting down a cross erected on public property, as a monument to war dead = burning down a Church? Just because the monument was a Cross? It is a piece of wood, a religious symbol, not a Church. There is a difference.
ha ha ha…..there shouldn’t be religious symbols on public property-keep whatever mythos you worship to yourself. You guys wouldn’t like a big satanic or pagan symbol displayed so why is YOUR religious symbolism OK?
Because the society is more christian than pagan and is right and natural to display religiuos symbols in which that society believes. And even more christian symbols should be displayed starting from the fact that Christianity is the whole true religion.
Eff the Church they are just people! We have lived under it’s jack booted heel long enough! Who are they to judge? They’re a bunch of of crooks and sinners posing as saints!
Please don’t tell us your personal past. It’s no use for anybody your memories about how you were neglected in childhood and your unresolved oedipal complex
Get help.
Go to North Korean then. There You have no religious symbols. Only the Kim family…
F R E E P U S S Y R I O T
Free Your mind…
Free Russia…that’s what this is about!
Not for FEMEN. For them, is Free Ukraine.
Very different thing.
We are lucky that these determined girls are not on the bad guys side. Otherwise there would be corpses lying around instead of crosses.
No religion in the world deserves any respect. It’s nothing but organized and destructive lying that should be criminalized. When do people begin to understand this?
They are destroying cross? How convenient. Let’s see if they have guts to burn Koran, for example in Grozny. Typical westernized hysterical, self righteous middle class hipster brats.
Taking on a billionaire Russian criminal like Putin is one thing, taking on a bunch of ignorant religious freaks is another.
FEMEN – Opposition to Islam – They staged a topless protest at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in opposition to “bloody Islamist regimes,” which they accuse the IOC of supporting.[53] The protest included women in the clothing of Muslim men as well as signs stating “No Sharia.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMEN#Opposition_to_Islam
cool well done! thats actitude
Haha, there are pagan symbols EVERYWHERE! From the pornography that surrounds you everywhere you look, to the idols created by Hollywood, to depictions of the Easter Bunny, Christmas trees, and Santa Claus (never mind the all-seeing eye on the Dollar Bill) …. And now in the West all kinds of symbols promoting homosexuality and marriage between them, these are awesome, but symbols of different values – religious ones – those are unbearable, do I understand you correctly?
The irony is that most liberals are so freakin’ intolerant! You can see that in Stalin and Mao – they were “liberals” who wanted to “change the world” and get “rid of religions”, just like you.
“but symbols of different values – religious ones – those are unbearable, do I understand you correctly?”
Perhaps if they Church had treated people a little better over the millennia they would get a little more respect.
“And now in the West all kinds of symbols promoting homosexuality and marriage between them, these are awesome”
Not in America, read the news. It’s anything but awesome if you believe all the religious nuts who are freaking out about it, as if gays marrying somehow destroys the sanctity of their heterosexual marriage to THEIR wife. I don’t get that logic at all…
Of couse you don’t get the logic, you need a brain for that
Sinbad, If you think 2 gays marrying in any way devalues the commitment that YOU personally swore to YOUR wife, I don’t know what to say. That’s an integrity issue on your part, nothing to do with the gays. It is your own values that are flawed.
Why in the world would those words that you vowed to honor have any less meaning to you, simply because someone who holds different values also committed to something similar with someone else??? Where is your brain? Tell the Church to give it back, that you want to think for yourself.
Marriage is a religious institution, the basis of the family, and homosexuality is a sin in religion. In California, gays had rights to a civil union, which granted them every single benefit of marriage, except the name was different. But the liberals still howled: it must be called marriage! Why? Because they want to destroy religion, and religious values. (Yes of course they would not object to a religion which is just like the liberal dogma – but they object to every religion that is different.)
Why do people object to the debasement of a word? Well, what if someone calls fascism “freedom”? Would you object – after all, it’s only a word, who cares how it’s used and by whom!
“Marriage is a religious institution”… No, it isn’t. Marriage as sanctioned and lawfully recognized by the government of the United States is strictly a secular civil union, the benefits and pitfalls of which have nothing at all to do with a particular religion or it’s beliefs.
Why are you not outraged about THAT “disbasement” of marriage by secular heterosexuals? Instead you are only offended when it is gays who wish to partake in it.
The issue isn’t about religion, it isn’t about the “sanctity of marriage”, it’s about the participants being homosexual. THAT’S what you religious folks really have a problem with. THEY ARE GAY. Those same folks have NO problem with otherwise secular heterosexuals engaging in marriage. No outrage about that…when was the last time you heard a religious minded person complain about secular non religious folks being allowed to marry, and how it destroys the “sanctity of marriage” and all that nonsense?
The issua isn’t marriage or religious values, it’s homosexuality and you religious folks have a fundamental problem with it. JUST ADMIT IT.
10 years for the chainsaw girl.
No respect for wartime victims.
best regards for girls from poland !
Next time I drive through Poland I will cut down a cross too, so can I expect Your greetings too?
Tiger, you’re right. “chemia” comment was very, very stupid. And this sad event made by Femen must be judged as brainless, moronic and meaningless provocation.
Feed them to the Amur Tigers…together with their frients from PR, period!
I actually think most of the FEMEN girls are cute
New discipline for STIHL Timbersports? Whoeverer came up with the idea missed the point altogether.
Pussy Riot were nobody. An few anonymous punk Russian rockers in bad clothes and balaclavas whose protests barely got any attention in Russia.
Now the word “PUSSY” is repeated the world over on nightly news broadcasts. Quite amusing. Is Putin really threatened by such girls?
Same as supporting a Bush and Obama regime for killing millions and millions of innocent people in Irag and Afghanistan. Oh and by the way, and also the British regime for jailing somebody for stealing a bottle of water for six months. i can go on and on regarding the western regimes (Israel for pesercuting the Palestinians etc.) That goes for the Renditions as well that the Americans committed with just about all the Nato Dictators. Phew, i can go on and on
Usually Femen posts don’t get this many comments….
Putin’s fault, he should have left Pussy Riot alone instead of persecuting them. Now they are political martyrs instead of a faceless hooligan punk band that nobody paid much attention to.
The term ‘attention whores’ comes to my mind when seeing this…
Heartless little rich b*tches. You can’t claim to represent victims when you destroy the memory of victims. As I’ve said before, I don’t believe they actually buy into the crap they are spouting. As Alex said, ‘attention whore’. Nothing more.
Normally I support these girls, becuase they have corrupted pols and crony media. Very hard to change anything.
Is seems that they are pro Ukraine, and anti russian/soviet. In their view, orthodox chrurch is a symbol of Russian control.
Well, that’s only my guess of their motives.
All of these so-called memorials want to be taken down, they only serve to glorify war… I salute the FEMEN… One day the Russian people will be free… The Russian ‘leaders’ should be nailed to these crosses and consigned to the flames…
You mean Ukrainian people. FEMEN doesn’t like Russians.
FREE PUSSY!
Wait…that didn’t come out right.