Another Artist: Gromova
Yet another Russian artist now popular on Russian internet, Olga Gromova.
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Olga has a realistic look of the police, that’s for sure.
I like her drawings !
We can have a Link to this sweet artist ??
I like her drawings, she expresses the innocence of the children and how all of us grow and come less optimistic in life. An extra point for the vision of russian police!
Does she have a website?
Some more over here:
http://caricatura.ru/strip/vsyako/
Her blog (in russian) is at http://vsyako.livejournal.com/
http://www.gromova.ru.gg/
All pictures, and especially a Pic # 4 from top is just like a photos of the modern russian-soviet society.
Putinists are exactly look like on these pictures.
Look at yourself, dumb Soviets!
andy from indy, you are a moron, and before your spelling and grammar improves can you please refrain from posting unintelligent comments
Nikitn wrote:
Oh, I just don’t talk to idiots who haven’t been in Russia for 20 years, yet think they know how it is there nicely.
Anyway.. Yes, Police officers are corrupt. But they are corrupt in a certain extent. Then won’t let you steal from someone, or let you kill someone like in Congo. Learn the difference. They need extra cash to support a family.
”The police [and the legal system in general] is supposed to be a cornerstone of a healthy society.”- I agree.
”In Russia it is the cornerstone of a corrupt society.” - Nope. As I said before, believe it or not, but most policemen are honourable men (but you wouldn’t know, as you don’t live in Russia). The thing that worries most people, is that in a research, 8/10 of them (or so) said corruption is OK, if you use the money right. So no one really cares if a policemen cashs in the money himself, instead of giving the money he took as a fine from crooks.
Only ones who do care, are the poleticians.
And hey, no judges aren’t corrupt. That just retarded. There is corruption in beurocracy, but it is widely accsepted. People don’t want to go to 5 natarouses to get stams, so that they could get a paper from a beurocrat.
Most decent people in the police are ”corrupt” (not badly corrupt. The traffic police are smart and try to do what they can to get some roubles, as they make shit for a pay).
“Corruption is like cancer, it undermines everything.” - Not the corruption in the police and lower beurocracy. Corruption like tax fraud is bad.
PS. No I doubt you even are Russian. I live in Astrakhan.
I find it funny though, that you hate the police. Because I know policemen who are openly “corrupt”, and their nice people. They are willing to risk their life for others, when on duty. You have no idea of Russian police.
You have a problem reading and understanding what you read. Dolgoprudny is rubbing against Moscow, last time I checked. It ceased to be a secret city quite some time ago.
That’s one.
Your statements and what they reflect are precisely the reason why Russia as a whole is rotten and corrupt and will stay like that for quite some time.
Russians in general love their country but hate the state. An often heard statement. At the same time, the state is reflecting the people and their mentality very accurate if you dare look into it.
Grab what you can get if necessary at someone else’s expense and as soon as you have something, build a wall around it, hire guards and buy an armored Mercedes, and then talk down about the losers outside.
Money is forwarded straight away to off-shore accounts, where it is more safe. Over 1200 different banks in Russia, a country where the majority of people doesn’t have a bank account, even. The only things these banks are doing is pumping rich people’s money around to legalize it and to launder it. To evade taxes. Because tax money is wasted on average people in their opinion. Just an example.
Another surreal one: the minister of agriculture has his whole family living in the US. Weird IMO, but it’s Russia, so anything goes. The minister of finance invest the governments money mostly in US bonds with low interest, and than borrows back the same money for a higher interest. He calls this ‘foreign investments’ and brags about the amount being invested. Recently he had to answer some questions in Duma related to the financial crisis. He didn’t show up because he had to attend a governmental meeting. His statement. In reality he was giving an interview to a foreign magazine, which he considered more important. In every country this person would have a hard time after this fuck up. Not in Russia. Also due to the fact that there is no critical press anymore, outside of the internet.
Icelandic banks went bankrupt. The first to come to their rescue is Russia. Why? Because many oligarchs had their money parked over there, and were afraid it was gone. So they started pulling some strings and their friends in the government straight away got in gear. In fact, the government is funding the oligarchs with taxpayers money. Completely surreal, but true. Etc etc.
Read the excellent web portal http://www.expert.ru : opinions and backgrounds on people and events you will never see in Russian print, because it might upset people. Printed media are controlled and supervised by the Kremlin. Since nobody wants problems, sensitive subjects are avoided.
‘[..]use the money right.’ ‘Right’ is a very subjective term for starters, IMO. To use it to buy a piece of land next to your dacha is a goal, i.e. Right or wrong ? When the owner doesn’t want to sell you burn down his property and put him in jail for some made up reason. In the meantime you take his land. To whom can he complain ? Indeed, no-one. YOU, the police are the law. This is an actual story, not made up by me. Power corrupts, which is proven in Russia every day.
Corruption is a crime according to the law. So the policeman is a criminal, jolly good fellow or not. If everything is for sale, you are not safe anywhere. The one with the money can decide on your fate.
And judges ? For sale, like everything. I was in a court case for over 2 years [actually, still am, in the middle of appealing] and lost my case several times, because, [the most recent verdict] as the bribed judge stated ‘to let me win would be bad for my opponents’. Impossible to believe, but true. The advocate of the opponents came knocking on my door a week later to offer me his services.
Why ?
Because he had the contacts and paid the bribes for his clients, but his clients didn’t pay him back, so he was left with quite a loss. No one spoke of justice, the law or right and wrong. It was about money, and money is always right, apparently.
Corruption is cancer. There is never an excuse. It is always bad. There can not be something like ‘controlled corruption’.
In the annual overview of corruption in the world [ http://www.transparency.org/news_room/in_focus/2008/cpi2008/cpi_2008_table ]Russia sharing spot 147 [of 180 countries] with countries like Syria, Kenya and Bangladesh. I am ashamed being Russian when I read this, because I know it is true.
We pose as decent and civilized but are rotten and corrupt. Babushka’s begging on the streets, general education declining fast, medical care going downhill and a corrupt legal system all because a few want all the money and abuse the power that comes with it, and no one wants to share. Doctors, professors and policemen are underpaid and this makes the whole foundation of the country weak. Of course, this is long term and no Russian cares about long term. Prestige today is better then prestige next year.
It is an old and still relevant subject of Russian literature: to give in to a corrupt system and reap the benefits or to stand by your principles and pay the price for that.
who cares what a stupid american has to say? Whenever I look at myself, at least I can see myself in the mirror and not only the half of my body. Dumb western pig.
It never fails to amaze me, this automatic response to critical remarks [stupid or not doesn't matter].
Of course the critic is assumed to be American [everybody outside of Russia is American, in the eyes of Russians at least] and because of that he is automatically an idiot, wrong, stupid, retarded or any combination of these.
And Russians fail to understand that be acting this way they are underlining their own limited understanding of the world, over and over again.
My Russian compatriots, act mature, with decency and respectful, and you will be treated similar. Please. Don’t make a fool of yourself.
It doesn’t amaze me how arrogant western idiots are. They come onto websites knowing in further advance they will only trash and be rude. So I’m not the one making a fool out of myself. You don’t see me go onto websites of American history and start talking that’s all false and lies (which it is).
lol ivan you baldy fag you can barely speak the english like I can .
These are wonderful cartoons.
The comments a little less so…
You know you don’t have to be American or Russian to be an idiot: they’re EVERYWHERE!!! All over this filthy rock we call home. Try to hide from them: YOU CAN’T!
So hold your head high so that you don’t drown in the muck.
Then maybe, if you’re lucky, you might notice the stars!