bottle
- Museum number
- 2022,8016.1
- Description
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Beer bottle, moulded in dark brown glass, 330ml, with label depicting a naked enthroned Vladimir Putin with a miniature Dmitry Medvedev on his lap, holding a nuclear bomb and surrounded by tanks, an armed soldier, blood-spattered vehicles and oil wells.
- Production date
- 2022
- Dimensions
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Height: 24 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Within a week of the Russian invasion, Pravda Brewery in the western Ukraine city of Lviv had switched its production from beer to the makiing 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2022
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2022,8016.1