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title: '''Don''t watch Russian! Russian kills!'' Boycott Russian Cinema poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/russian-films-kill-boycott-poster-2014/
description: Black poster with a white film projector whose handle is an assault-rifle grip, throwing a beam in the Russian tricolour, under the Ukrainian words…
section: Collection
---

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[!['Don't watch Russian! Russian kills!' Boycott Russian Cinema poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/russian-films-kill-boycott-poster-2014.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/russian-films-kill-boycott-poster-2014.jpg)

# 'Don't watch Russian! Russian kills!' Boycott Russian Cinema poster

Black poster with a white film projector whose handle is an assault-rifle grip, throwing a beam in the Russian tricolour, under the Ukrainian words 'Don't watch Russian! Russian kills!' The tells are the transfer of a weapon's stigma onto a projector and the label 'Russian kills', which is attached to a whole category of films rather than to any named film or person.

- **Date:** August 28, 2014
- **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary)
- **Made by:** Vidsich civic group, 'Boycott Russian Cinema' campaign (Ukraine)
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Ukraine](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=ukraine)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=movement)
- **Regime:** [Yatsenyuk Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=yatsenyuk-government)
- **Leader:** [Arseniy Yatsenyuk](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=arseniy-yatsenyuk)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Event:** [War in Donbas](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=war-in-donbas)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Vidsich, 'Boycott Russian Cinema' campaign photos)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_films_are_cilling.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC BY 3.0 (Vidsich activist, permission confirmed via Wikimedia VRTS) Vidsich (Відсіч) civic group, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

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

```
НЕ ДИВИСЬ РОСІЙСЬКЕ!

РОСІЙСЬКЕ ВБИВАЄ!
```

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

```
DON'T WATCH RUSSIAN!

RUSSIAN KILLS!
```

The projector and tricolour beam are graphics, not text.

[← Rival presidential billboards, Istanbul, election day 2014](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/turkey-election-billboards-2014/) ['Chávez vive' banners on the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, Caracas →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chavez-vive-confinanzas-banners-2014/)

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- [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (0037 · Testimonial, Transfer)
- [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer)
- [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking)
- [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
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