'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.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- August 28, 2014
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Vidsich civic group, 'Boycott Russian Cinema' campaign (Ukraine)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Ukraine
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Yatsenyuk Government
- Leader
- Arseniy Yatsenyuk
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Media and information, War and the military
- Event
- War in Donbas
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Vidsich, 'Boycott Russian Cinema' campaign photos), 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!
DON'T WATCH RUSSIAN! RUSSIAN KILLS!
The projector and tricolour beam are graphics, not text.
