Content note: Hand-lettered protest signs equating a living political leader with Hitler. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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.
- Date
- August 13, 2008
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR)
- Country
- Russia
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Putin Government
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Russo Georgian War
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (ldpr.ru), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 3.0 (ldpr.ru site-wide licence statement, via Commons)
LDPR (ldpr.ru), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
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]
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.
