Content note: Political billboard with blood-spatter graphics over portraits of named opposition figures, reproduced as photographed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Billboard 'No to the Natsebi! No to evil! No to betrayal!' with blood-spattered portraits of opposition figures (Tbilisi, 27 September 2021)
A large roadside billboard shows seven men in suits and open collars in a close group portrait, black-and-white, covered with red blood-spatter marks, over a red bar with three white Georgian slogans. The face of the man at the centre has been blacked out, apparently by paint applied after the billboard went up. The tells are different named politicians and a media owner merged into one bloc by a shared stain, and a three-part 'No to' chant that names the group as an enemy without stating any charge.
Propaganda techniques used in this sign or banner
- Date
- September 27, 2021
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Sponsor not named (unsigned billboard, Alexander Kazbegi Avenue, Tbilisi)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Georgia
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Georgian Dream Government
- Leader
- No single regime or leader
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- 2021 Georgian Local Elections
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Jelger Groeneveld, via Flickr), retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 2.0 (Flickr licence reviewed by FlickreviewR, per the Wikimedia Commons file page)
Jelger Groeneveld, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (Georgian) · read from the image, not independently checked
არა ნაცებს! არა ბოროტებას! არა ღალატს!
No to the Natsebi! No to evil! No to betrayal!
'ნაცებს' is the dative plural of 'ნაცები' (slang for United National Movement supporters). Translation is literal.
