Russian soldiers kissing

[+ tassojunior]

A 1945 statue in Prague I noticed today. Czech soldier kissing a Russian soldier. War bride?

[+ FreshFluff]

It looks more like the socialist fraternal kiss. The Czech soldier was happy to see the Russian army that was liberating his country, or so he thought.

[+ Avalon]

Spasibo (Thank-you in Russian)

[+ Charlie]

Pokorny based the statue on a photo taken of a Czech worker (not a soldier) embracing a Russian soldier during the liberation of Prague from the Germans in 1945. The statue is more dramatic than the photo, in which the men are not actually kissing, nor as physically attractive. It is intended to be propaganda about the "brotherhood" between Russians and Czechs, in which the Russians are clearly the big brother saving the grateful younger brother. Few Europeans of that time would have interpreted the embrace, or even the kiss, as homoerotic, the way we modern sex-minded Americans do.

[+ tassojunior]

If I want to imagine there was tongue involved I will do so.

[+ Avalon]

If I want to imagine there was tongue involved I will do so.

 

I want to imagine that it's two Belami models.

[+ Pensant]

I imagine there were few kisses in 1968.

[+ tassojunior]

It is odd that the Czechs tore down all pro-Russian statues after the wall came down except for this one.

[P Gren]

A 1945 statue in Prague I noticed today. Czech soldier kissing a Russian soldier. War bride?

It might be a medically related about how to provide AR standing up