It Takes Cojones to Protest in Russia

[drjohnnyfever]

"Artist Nails Scrotum To Russian Public Square in Ballsy Show of Dissent"


"A Russian artist nailed his testicles to the cobblestones of Moscow’s Red Square Sunday to protest Russia’s police force.

Pyotr Pavlensky stripped down and nailed his scrotum to the ground to draw attention to the “apathy, political indifference and fatalism of contemporary Russian society,” he said in a statement, the Guardian reports. He timed the performance art with Police Day in order to comment on Russia as a “police state.”

Pavlensky also once sewed his lips shut to protest the harsh sentences given to Pussy Riot band members and wrapped himself in barbed wire to comment on Russia’s oppressive legal system."

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[freddfish]

Nov 11, 2013 16:13:35 GMT -5 drjohnnyfever said:

"Artist Nails Scrotum To Russian Public Square in Ballsy Show of Dissent"


"A Russian artist nailed his testicles to the cobblestones of Moscow’s Red Square Sunday to protest Russia’s police force.

Pyotr Pavlensky stripped down and nailed his scrotum to the ground to draw attention to the “apathy, political indifference and fatalism of contemporary Russian society,” he said in a statement, the Guardian reports. He timed the performance art with Police Day in order to comment on Russia as a “police state.”

Pavlensky also once sewed his lips shut to protest the harsh sentences given to Pussy Riot band members and wrapped himself in barbed wire to comment on Russia’s oppressive legal system."

Read more: Russian Artist Nails Scrotum To Moscow's Red Square | TIME.com newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/11/artist-nails-scrotum-to-russian-public-square-in-ballsy-show-of-dissent/#ixzz2kNEU5100









Read more: Russian Artist Nails Scrotum To Moscow's Red Square | TIME.com newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/11/artist-nails-scrotum-to-russian-public-square-in-ballsy-show-of-dissent/#ixzz2kNE8YHHo

Ouch  

[Evil Yoda]

Putin disappeared one of the women in the band Pussy Riot, who were in the bucket for being disrespectful to authority, basically (in their case, a church I believe). It's a dangerous place to live.

[Deleted]

Nov 11, 2013 17:58:46 GMT -5 Evil Yoda said:

Putin disappeared one of the women in the band Pussy Riot, who were in the bucket for being disrespectful to authority, basically (in their case, a church I believe). It's a dangerous place to live.

He released two of them, right? Not that keeping the 3rd locked up makes any difference.

[Deleted]

Seems like the cruelest thing they could do is just leave him there....

[Deleted]

Russia has turned from a Commie-Pinko dictatorship to just a plain old kleptocratic dictatorship.
Theft from others is still the common theme.

[douger]

Nov 11, 2013 16:13:35 GMT -5 drjohnnyfever said:

"Artist Nails Scrotum To Russian Public Square in Ballsy Show of Dissent"


"A Russian artist nailed his testicles to the cobblestones of Moscow’s Red Square Sunday to protest Russia’s police force.

Pyotr Pavlensky stripped down and nailed his scrotum to the ground to draw attention to the “apathy, political indifference and fatalism of contemporary Russian society,” he said in a statement, the Guardian reports. He timed the performance art with Police Day in order to comment on Russia as a “police state.”

Pavlensky also once sewed his lips shut to protest the harsh sentences given to Pussy Riot band members and wrapped himself in barbed wire to comment on Russia’s oppressive legal system."

Read more: Russian Artist Nails Scrotum To Moscow's Red Square | TIME.com newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/11/artist-nails-scrotum-to-russian-public-square-in-ballsy-show-of-dissent/#ixzz2kNEU5100










Read more: Russian Artist Nails Scrotum To Moscow's Red Square | TIME.com newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/11/artist-nails-scrotum-to-russian-public-square-in-ballsy-show-of-dissent/#ixzz2kNE8YHHo

Nailed it.

[Deleted]

I guess that when one regards every problem as a nail, the only solution is a hammer....

[Deleted]

No matter what though, that took BALLS.

[drjohnnyfever]

Do you think he used a ball-peen hammer?

......and who pulled the nail OUT?

[Deleted]

Nov 11, 2013 19:59:52 GMT -5 drjohnnyfever said:

Do you think he used a ball-peen hammer?

......and who pulled the nail OUT?

Ras PUTIN? 

[drjohnnyfever]

Nov 11, 2013 20:05:05 GMT -5 @paradigm said:

Nov 11, 2013 19:59:52 GMT -5 drjohnnyfever said:

Do you think he used a ball-peen hammer?

......and who pulled the nail OUT?

Ras PUTIN? 

good un

[Foggy Dewhurst]

"Artist Nails Scrotum To Russian Public Square in Ballsy Show of Dissent"

Yikes, that made me cringe just reading it..

[musicman]

I sat on my right nut one time. That hurt. I couldn't imagine nailing my scrotum to anything. It would probably make me ball my eyes out.