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A satirical cartoon of a man at a dilapidated gas station with exploding prices, a deflating bear, drones attacking a tank, and politicians ignoring a bear rug on a table, all under pouring rain in a crumbling city. Protest signs and Cyrillic text on posters are visible.

A satirical cartoon of a man at a dilapidated gas station with exploding prices, a deflating bear, drones attacking a tank, and politicians ignoring a bear rug on a table, all under pouring rain in a crumbling city. Protest signs and Cyrillic text on posters are visible.

“A bitterly satirical political cartoon in a gritty, hyper-detailed propaganda-poster style mixed with dark Russian realism and absurd Surrealism. In the foreground, a weary, middle-aged Russian everyman in a cheap tracksuit and ushanka stands at a dilapidated Moscow gas station under pouring rain. The price sign shows rubles exploding upward like a mushroom cloud: ‘Газ 999 руб/литр’. His face shows exhausted betrayal as he holds a tiny, cracking portrait of a once-mighty Tsar-like autocrat whose crown is comically slipping off. Behind him, the Russian bear (symbol of the autocracy) is deflating like a sad balloon, patched with duct tape, while tiny Ukrainian drones buzz around it like angry hornets, striking a burning military base in the distance with cartoonish explosions and leaking oil. On the world stage to the right, a comically shrunken Russia appears as a tiny bear rug on a giant UN table, ignored by laughing Western and Chinese leaders who are toasting with energy contracts. Crumbling Soviet-style buildings and faded ‘Великая Россия’ posters peel in the background. Moody cinematic lighting, desaturated reds and greys with harsh neon price signs, rain-slicked streets, scattered protest signs reading ‘Сколько ещё?’ and ‘Это победа?’. Text in Cyrillic: ‘Непоколебимая власть… пока бензин не подорожал’. Biting, ironic, darkly funny tone — no glorification of violence, pure institutional absurdity Ver mais