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Sexy wartime pinups are back in style - this time in Ukraine

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Sexy American pinups of the '40s and '50s take a special place in the hearts of post-Soviet artists. When pinups were on the rise in the States, the Soviet government had decisively excluded such "bourgeois decadence" from the culture of the builders of communism. Instead, Soviet men were encouraged to rest their eyes on the portraits of exemplary workers and collective farmers who happened to be women, painted in the tradition of socialist realism.

Today, feeling nostalgic for that which never was, artists in different parts of the former USSR are trying to reconstruct the missing link in their cultural evolution - either by drawing a series of clever mashups, mixing vintage American pinup girls with Soviet propaganda posters, or by visualizing scantily clad retro-babes in classic pin-up poses but with Soviet enthusiastic fire in their eyes, who can only exist in an imaginary alternative timeline, in which the Soviet government hadn't been so zealous in suppressing the sexuality of its citizens.

And today, Ukrainian graphic artist Sviatoslav Pashchuk is bringing back military-styled pinups - after all, it was during World War II that the pinup culture was born originally, satisfying the need of American GIs to gaze at creatures of beauty in the midst of cruel wartime brutality.

Now that a brutal war is raging in the east of Ukraine, the new series is quickly becoming a hot item among Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers, who are defending their country against the Russian aggression. The guys are grateful to the artist for the diversion. They get the reference, admitting that this patriotic erotica is even sweeter to their eyes than it was to the American GIs during WWII. These pinups are also a reminder of the bigger world they had left behind and to which they hope to return after the war is over. Alas, not all of them will.

Each pinup is dedicated to a different branch of armed service or a volunteer battalion, accompanied by humorous and often rhymed patriotic slogans, with a warning at the bottom in fine print: "separatism is dangerous to your health."

The artist is offering them for sale with the understanding that part of the proceeds will go to support the Ukrainian military. Since this is not a real commercial operation, the only way to order them for now is by sending him an email at [email protected].

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Last night I contacted this Ukrainian artist via Facebook, sending him a link to the Cube and some additional questions. When I woke up I already had his responses (the time difference is seven hours). Here's what he wrote:


Sviatoslav Pashchuk: Good day to you! We are already sending our posters to American buyers and soon we will also have a special website, it's almost done now. I'm also going to make English-language versions for the American market.

You are correct - all money from the sales will go to help our soldiers. Most of the proceeds will be used to buy sniper equipment and ammunition for volunteer fighters. Thank you very much for the promotion.

I'm going to continue with this series, making as many as 12 posters. The site will have a link to the blog where I'll keep the readers updated on my coming creations.

See the seven existing posters below:

Donbas Volunteer Battalion: Goodies For The Bullies

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Special Forces: Fatal Dating

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Artillery: The Final Lullaby
(The stenciled acronym on the howitzer stands for "F-U Putin")

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Air Force: A Hot Nosedive

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Border Patrol: The Hunter Instinct

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Aydar Volunteer Battalion: Our Kind of Happy

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Ukrainian National Guard: Gentle Ukrainization

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If I write too much about Ukraine these days, let me know. I can't help it; this was my old home.



Hammer and Loupe wrote:Uuuuuuuhhhhhhhh.......... No navy?

The Navy doethn't need girly pinupth, thilly boy.

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This story with the posters is now cross-posted in PJ Media, with the reaser currently sitting at the top of their main page.

Why Sexy Wartime Pinups Are Back in Style — This Time in Ukraine

For those who has already read the story prior to this posting, there's an update:

UPDATE:

Last night I contacted this Ukrainian artist via Facebook, sending him a link to the Cube and some additional questions. When I woke up I already had his responses (the time difference is seven hours). Here's what he wrote:

Sviatoslav Pashchuk: Good day to you! We are already sending our posters to American buyers and soon we will also have a special website, it's almost done now. I'm also going to make English-language versions for the American market.

You are correct - all money from the sales will go to help our soldiers.Most of the proceeds will be used to buy sniper equipment and ammunition for volunteer fighters.Thank you very much for the promotion.

I'm going to continue with this series, making as many as 12 posters. The site will have a link to the blog where I'll keep the readers updated on my coming creations.

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Additionally, the artist says he's receiving emails from the frontline, with pictures of his pinups in the corresponding interiors. Here's one:

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Lev Termen wrote:
Hammer and Loupe wrote:Uuuuuuuhhhhhhhh.......... No navy?

The Navy doethn't need girly pinupth, thilly boy.

I'd like to add that the Navy already hath the motht clever marketing thlogan, yvaN ehT nioJ, what would they use pinupth for? It would be a wathte of paper! Bethides, everybody knowth that the pinupth only work on the Army and Marineth, the only reathon people join the Air Forth is for the Jet Enginth and the wildly thucethful propaganda film Top Gun.

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Red Square wrote:This story with the posters is now cross-posted in PJ Media, with the reaser currently sitting at the top of their main page.

Why Sexy Wartime Pinups Are Back in Style — This Time in Ukraine

For those who has already read the story prior to this posting, there's an update:

UPDATE:

Last night I contacted this Ukrainian artist via Facebook, sending him a link to the Cube and some additional questions. When I woke up I already had his responses (the time difference is seven hours). Here's what he wrote:

Sviatoslav Pashchuk: Good day to you! We are already sending our posters to American buyers and soon we will also have a special website, it's almost done now. I'm also going to make English-language versions for the American market.

You are correct - all money from the sales will go to help our soldiers.Most of the proceeds will be used to buy sniper equipment and ammunition for volunteer fighters.Thank you very much for the promotion.

I'm going to continue with this series, making as many as 12 posters. The site will have a link to the blog where I'll keep the readers updated on my coming creations.

* * *

Additionally, the artist says he's receiving emails from the frontline, with pictures of his pinups in the corresponding interiors. Here's one:

Comrade Leader Red,

I hope Comrade Putout doesn't hear about this or she'll start packing for a trip to Ukraine without me!

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Write about Ukraine all you want, Red. We're here to read.

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Comrade Stierlitz wrote:
Lev Termen wrote:
The Navy doethn't need girly pinupth, thilly boy.

I'd like to add that the Navy already hath the motht clever marketing thlogan, yvaN ehT nioJ, what would they use pinupth for? It would be a wathte of paper! Bethides, everybody knowth that the pinupth only work on the Army and Marineth, the only reathon people join the Air Forth is for the Jet Enginth and the wildly thucethful propaganda film Top Gun.

Cough cough, ahemph! Sorry to clean your shovel, Comrade Stierlits, but Top Gun is Navy aviation.

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Hammer and Loupe wrote:
Comrade Stierlitz wrote:
Lev Termen wrote:
The Navy doethn't need girly pinupth, thilly boy.

I'd like to add that the Navy already hath the motht clever marketing thlogan, yvaN ehT nioJ, what would they use pinupth for? It would be a wathte of paper! Bethides, everybody knowth that the pinupth only work on the Army and Marineth, the only reathon people join the Air Forth is for the Jet Enginth and the wildly thucethful propaganda film Top Gun.

Cough cough, ahemph! Sorry to clean your shovel, Comrade Stierlits, but Top Gun is Navy aviation.

I know that very well Comrade Hammer, but motht people aren't even aware that Top Gun ith of the Navy. They jutht get all caught up in the airplanth and thay "I wanna fly one of those, so I'm gonna go to the Air Force!" Therefore, Top Gun is an Air Forth propaganda film with Naval actorth.

By the way, thanks for the shovel cleaning, she lookth brand-new!

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This is glorious photo of next American Pee-Resident!! She is best wife ever, to be letting husband do anythings he wants to any things he wants. Long Live American Feminist Revolution!!Also, she is looking like she could be pulling a plow! What a woman!!

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Ah, I remember the days when I was a young female officer in the Air Force ... indeed, all the young female officers used to sit around and sigh over the wonderful missiles of SAC ... all that thrust and multiple warheads. (Swoon.) Ah, yes, those were the days....

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Hammer, Stierlitz, are you two athithtantth of a thertain mad thientith who thpethialithith in the reanimation of corptheth?

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I have never seen such an aggressive set of military forces!

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In a previous occupation involving attack helicopters in the Balkans, I had the opportunity to overfly a Russian airborne unit close enough to see the blue stripes on the t-shirts of the BMD vehicle crewmen (who were understandably startled to see such an aircraft in the Russian sector, much less their position...good times indeed!). We did not see anything like these ladies.

Now, on the other hand, Belgian forces are co-ed, and the females would sun themselves on the armored vehicles...during the warmer months, some of these "recruiting posters" could have been taken live...



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Well, since you are into sexy wartime pinups, why not watch this? The animation is pretty amazing.





p.s. Ukraine babes are killer too! We love them. Feel free to post!


 
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