Traditional parades have passed in German cities: how they praised Zelensky and ridiculed Putin (photo)
According to the newspaper, in vain the Germans also call this day "crazy Monday" - humor and sarcasm, as well as creative and ingenuity on these parades are simply off the chart. Usually, the rose Monday is taking place in centers such as Cologne, Bonn, Dusseldorf and Mainz, and well-known politicians and public figures are becoming German and foreign dolls.
This year, the Germans did not overlook the key figures of their politicum, as well as the figures of people who make the world better or immerse it into the depths of hell. The topic of Russia's war against Ukraine was important. So, in the course of Dusseldorf you could see the figure of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was trying to swallow Ukraine. In Cologne, the figure of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was good at the parade.
Former US President Donald Trump, who strikes the Ukrainian military, was also in the carnival. In Mainz, German politicians, especially those who are in the same plane with Putin, have not passed. One of them is Sarah Wagenknecht, the leader of his name for common sense and justice, one of the most urgent critics of helping Ukraine. Along with her Alice Weidel of "Alternative to Germany".
"Both Barbie represent the opposite poles of German politics - the left and right, but the common denominator is" Ken " - Putin," the BBC said. The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also got. He was depicted with a hole in his head and a punitive signature "Holaf Scholt" or "Empty Scholtz". On other platforms, Adolf Hitler's "Alternative to Germany" is visible under the mask of a farmway, and Hamas's terrorist pushes the Palestinian family under the Dulo of the Israeli Tank.
Usually, the carnival was not without "Russian world". Last year, Dusseldorf sculptor Jacques Tilly depicted Putin in a bathroom with blood. This year, the artist presented oral sex between the Kremlin dictator and Patriarch Cyril. "From Russia with love," it is written on the platform in English, with the word "love" painted in the colors of LGBT. On Monday, February 12, in Germany celebrate "rose" or "pink Monday". Together with the "ash medium" is one of the last days of the carnival season.
Preparation for the carnival begins in advance, in November - November 11 at 11 o'clock 11 minutes, the first meeting of carnival activists pass across the country. It is then that the beginning of the fifth time of the year - the carnival. On this day on the streets of German cities for the first time after the last day of the carnival at the beginning of the year, you can meet people in unusual costumes.
By the way, the first manuscript certificates of celebration of the carnival in Munich are dated in 1295. The carnival week in February begins with the visit of the church service on Thursday morning (Weiberfastnacht), necessarily until 12 o'clock. So it ends on Wednesday next week in the afternoon. Only women celebrate the carnival. They are dressed in witches, fair trade, devil. Men, going to a restaurant or pub that day, run the risk of getting out without clothing - so women can joke.
The main event of the holiday is RosenMontag - a carnival gait in "Pink Monday". It is reminiscent of a demonstration: a car traffic is blocked and on the central streets of cities, for several hours in a row, clowns, princesses, kings, barons, orchestras and many papier-mache dolls are on decorated cars. Everyone sing, scream greetings, throw in the crowd of Confetti viewers, candy, give glasses with beer and wine.
The course ends on one of the large areas of the city with greetings of participants and a concert. The next day after "pink Monday", on Tuesday, children are absorbed in carnival costumes, and in the morning they come to school. Immediately after the lessons, they go home, where sweets and small souvenirs are waiting for them. The shops and bakery on this day sell donuts with Berliner jam, among which can be "happy" with mustard or coin.