A campaign of swapping T-shirts
with slogans on foreign languages for the ones with patriotic prints free of
charge was kicked off in Moscow’s central Pushkin Square on Tuesday
MOSCOW, September 23. /ITAR-TASS/. Any Russian is now
free to demonstrate his or her indignation against Western sanctions by simply
wearing a designer T-shirt with a patriotic print. A campaign of swapping
T-shirts with slogans on foreign languages for the ones with patriotic prints
free of charge was kicked off in Moscow’s central Pushkin Square on Tuesday.
Various T-shirts were set out on a stall with a samovar
in front of the Pushkin monument. The T-shirts displayed featured funny and
provocative texts in Russian. Some read “Sanctions? Don’t make my Iskanders
laugh” and featured pictures of these mobile ballistic missile systems. Some
had the text of the Russian anthem on the background of St. Basil’s Cathedral
/on Red Square/.
“All are trendy, nice and funny. Our action is called
‘Fashion’s Answer to the Sanctions is No!’,” designer Anastasia Zadorina, whose
company had manufactured 30,000 such T-shirts, told ITAR-TASS.
Young people were flocking around the stall, with
newsmakers seen among them. Girls changed clothes in a bus parked nearby, boys
did it just in the street, despite not very warm weather. Actress Olga Kabo put
on a T-shirt featuring a Topol giant road-mobile intercontinental ballistic
missile and reading “Topol is Afraid of No Sanctions.”
She said she had no
doubts that Russia was right. “We will win because we are big and strong,” she
told ITAR-TASS, adding that she hoped the current international confrontation
would soon be ended. “Two such creative countries like Russia and Ukraine
simply must live together,” she stressed.
According to Ksenia Melnikova, one of the action’s
co-organizers and president of the Sodeistviye /Assistance/ Fund, the key idea
of the action was to demonstrate the world that “Russia is afraid of no
sanctions.”
Confidentially, she said that the organizers were ready to give out
such T-shirts not only in exchange for foreign ones but just for free to “help
people demonstrate their patriotic position.”
“As for T-shirts with slogans in foreign languages, we
will recycle them. Maybe, we will create a piece of art,” she said. In her
words, the action was sponsored by two Russian companies and a “popular
fundraising campaign may be organized” to further promote it.
Organizers say the action’s bus will move around the
city over the next two weeks. Its stopovers may be seen on the action’s website
http:www.otvetim-net.ru. It is planned to involve celebrities in the campaign.
From Moscow, the patriotic bus will set off for Russian regions, including
Crimea. A special action will be organized at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport on September
29, when patriotic T-shirts will be given out to passengers.
Source:
ITAR-TASS 23-09-2014
