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title: 'LDPR rally at the Georgian embassy, Moscow: ''Saakashvili = Hitler'', 13 August 2008'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ldpr-saakashvili-hitler-rally-moscow-2008/
description: 'Party activists in LDPR caps hold two hand-lettered sheets in front of blue LDPR flags: ''Саакашвили =Гитлер'' (Saakashvili = Hitler) and ''Миша! Не бряцай!…'
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Hand-lettered protest signs equating a living political leader with Hitler. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![LDPR rally at the Georgian embassy, Moscow: 'Saakashvili = Hitler', 13 August 2008](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ldpr-saakashvili-hitler-rally-moscow-2008.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ldpr-saakashvili-hitler-rally-moscow-2008.jpg)

# LDPR rally at the Georgian embassy, Moscow: 'Saakashvili = Hitler', 13 August 2008

Party activists in LDPR caps hold two hand-lettered sheets in front of blue LDPR flags: 'Саакашвили =Гитлер' (Saakashvili = Hitler) and 'Миша! Не бряцай! Отвалятся..', each with a yellow tag 'За все ответите! ЖИРИНОВСКИЙ'. The tell is a loaded label, the Hitler equation, attached to a named leader in place of a stated charge.

## Text on the object

Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Миша!
Не бряцай!
Отвалятся..

За все ответите!
ЖИРИНОВСКИЙ

Саакашвили
=Гитлер

За все ответите!
ЖИРИНОВСКИЙ

[illegible fragments of a third sheet at far left: ...АЗА! ...ОТНИК! ...АНА]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Misha!
Don't rattle (your sabres)!
They will fall off..

You will answer for everything!
ZHIRINOVSKY

Saakashvili
= Hitler

You will answer for everything!
ZHIRINOVSKY

[illegible fragments of a third sheet at far left]
```

'Миша' is the diminutive of Mikheil/Mikhail. The sentence 'Отвалятся..' ends in two dots and its subject is not stated on the sheet; 'бряцай' is the verb used in the idiom for rattling sabres. Translation is literal.

[← TV Martí studio set for the programme "Nuestra América", 2008](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tv-marti-newscast-bbg-2008/) ['Stop Russia' billboard, Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi, 2008 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stop-russia-billboard-tbilisi-2008/)

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