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This is a fragment of an interview with  artist Vladimir Manzhos, the story of the creation of the mural in October 2014
  "When I painted this part of the
mural, I did not plan to depict putin
At first, the head was at the stage of rough marking, meanwhile I was working on other details.
All the time working on the mural (45 days), I constantly heard comments from random viewers.
And all the comments on the snake's alress were as follows:
- Is this putin?
⁃ It's putin!
Paint putin!
Well, I have no choice but to carry out the will of the people - to incite putin.

But the land lord of the building was frightened. He asked me to change the image a bit so that there would be no portrait resemblance, to make
the portrait veiled, and the image of a swamp monster appeared

About the lined tank with the inscription "To Kiev"
I was working on the mural at the time when the war in the Donbass was already going and saw on the Internet photos of Russian tanks with
various inscriptions: to Berlin, to Lviv, to Kyiv
That's how the idea of "destroying" an enemy tank with artistic methods came about

Waone Manzhos. March 3. 2023 Seventh day of the War