(Disturbing) Politicized Billboards, Or, How complicated politics can be.

While visiting Subcarpathia last month, I noticed two rather disturbing and undeniably politicized billboards.  Not sure which is (worse), so I'll just start with the Ukrainian übernationalist one:

 

It's not too good of a shot, because we were trying to get shots of it from a moving car. But the text is:

Христос босрес! Боскресне Украïна!

 Беселнх свят у своïн, богом данiи краïнi

 

 This one we saw in a few places, mostly in the countryside and not in Užhorod, mostly around Perečin and Mukačevo.  

It's commemorating the 70th anniversary of the short-lived Nazi puppet state Carpatho-Ukraine.  

That's priest-president Augustin Vološin there.

If you're curious about Vološin and Carpatho-Ukraine, the place to go is the museum in the castle in Užhorod.  They've got a great display of the local tradition of autonomy (without being very overt about it) and the last room is all about AV, to the point of it seeming a bit cult-of-personality-esque.

 

  Propaganda from the Carpatho-Ukraine period -- strong visual culture.