Meanwhile: Kremlin gets trolled
Poetry seemingly praising Vladmir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine has been blocked by Russian authorities after its was discovered to be reworked Nazi verse from the 1930s and 1940s, it has been reported
Russian journalist Andrei Zakharov, who was the first to reveal publicly that Rakitin was a fake persona
the journalist estimated nearly 100 Russian MPs, 30 senators and well-known pro-war cultural figures followed the account on social media network VKontakte. One poem reached the semifinal of a poetry competition
VKontakte blocked the page of the fictional poet within Russia on July 4, independent Russian Telegram channel SOTA reported on Saturday
References to Germany were changed to Russia and one poem was called Leader, published with a photograph of Putin, which was actually originally called Führer and written by the Nazi-supporting writer Eberhard Möller.
the idea for the prank was inspired by reading collections of Z poetry
Gennady long mocked Z poems on his feed In the end, his message was >> Fuck the war