Putler, Putinna, and Death
Russia’s War in Ukraine in Caricature
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The genre of political caricature has been busy with Putin’s war in Ukraine. The cartoon represents a form of coping with violence and the threat of violence. Every caricature is also a political statement. With regard to Ukraine, Polish cartoonists tie into Poland’s collective memory of war and occupation. In their drawings, they merge Putin and Hitler, or they fall back on living folk tradi-tions, such as the expulsion of winter by burning the straw doll Marzanna: in tempore belli, she mutates into Putinna.
(Osteuropa 1-3/2022, pp. 277–298)