‘Naked Putin’ from Lviv brewery becomes exhibit of British Museum

This is stated on the website of the British Museum, Espreso.West reports.

On the initiative of Leonora Baird-Smith, the curator of the British Museum, the exhibition was supplemented by an object from a brewery in the western Ukraine city of Lviv. This is a bottle of beer with a cartoon of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

“Within a week of the Russian invasion, Pravda Brewery in the western Ukraine city of Lviv had switched its production from beer to the making of Molotov cocktails, improvised firebombs named by Finnish troops in the Second World War after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who claimed that bombing missions over Finland were food drops. The brewery chose to use bottles of Golden Ale previously named 'Putin Huilo' after a popular obscene football chant which emerged when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, with the original name changed to Putin,” the description of the museum object says.

On the 330 ml bottle, a naked Vladimir Putin sits on a throne and holds little Dmitry Medvedev in his arms. Next to the throne in a cheburashka (Russian classic cartoon character - ed.) costume is the former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. In the background is a military and an oil-producing enterprise.

• In June, Lviv brewers mocked an international organization.