---
title: '''A tyre burned, blazed, and Vova Putler - la-la-la!'' Ukrainian Platform ''Sobor'' billboard, Kyiv'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sobor-vova-putler-billboard-kyiv-2014/
description: 'Maroon billboard in Kyiv from the party Ukrainian Platform ''Sobor'': a boxed warning ''Attention: obscene vocabulary'' above a rhyme, ''A tyre burned…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Political billboard that ridicules Vladimir Putin as 'Putler' and carries a printed warning of obscene vocabulary. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!['A tyre burned, blazed, and Vova Putler - la-la-la!' Ukrainian Platform 'Sobor' billboard, Kyiv](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sobor-vova-putler-billboard-kyiv-2014.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sobor-vova-putler-billboard-kyiv-2014.jpg)

# 'A tyre burned, blazed, and Vova Putler - la-la-la!' Ukrainian Platform 'Sobor' billboard, Kyiv

Maroon billboard in Kyiv from the party Ukrainian Platform 'Sobor': a boxed warning 'Attention: obscene vocabulary' above a rhyme, 'A tyre burned, blazed, and Vova Putler - la-la-la!' The tell is the coined label 'Putler' (Putin plus Hitler) and the pet-name 'Vova', which ridicule and stigmatise a named foreign leader through a sing-song refrain instead of a claim.

## Text on the object

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

```
УКРАЇНСЬКА
ПЛАТФОРМА
СОБОР

УВАГА
НЕНОРМАТИВНА
ЛЕКСИКА

Горіла шина, палала,
А Вова Путлєр – ла-ла-ла!

[small print at lower right, illegible]
```

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

```
UKRAINIAN
PLATFORM
SOBOR

ATTENTION
OBSCENE
VOCABULARY

A tyre burned, blazed,
And Vova Putler – la-la-la!

[small print at lower right, illegible]
```

The spelling 'Путлєр' is as printed. The line of small print under the rhyme at the lower right is too small to read.

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