Protesting War in all the Small Places

A homegrown group of Russian feminist anti-war group has created a list of phony grocery store price tags that it is encouraging its supporters to post under products in grocery stores in a "guerilla style" anti-war campaign. 

The price tag on a jar of coffee reads, "The Russian army has bombed an Art school in Mariupol. Around 400 people were hiding in it from shooting."

A candy bar price tag reads: "Russian soldiers did not let in 14 trucks with humanitarian cargo into the Kherson oblast.  Peaceful residents there need food and medicine."

Other price tags appearing in stores contain the messages: "The Russian army has destroyed over 20 medical establishments in Ukraine."  "People I know are hiding from Russian bombings in the Metro.  None of them are Nazis.  Stop the war."  "Stop the War!  In the first three days, 4300 Russian soldiers died.  Why is this not being talked about on TV?" "Russian war forces have destroyed 80% of the city of Mariupol.  What for?"  "I haven't been in touch with my sister from Ukraine for 8 days.  I don't know what's happened to her.  Stop the War."

On social media, the anti-war group says, "By replacing something very routine with something alien and unusual, we show that there is not a single place in our country that would not be affected by the war, and we do not let people simply close their eyes to what is happening."

Last week, a Petersburg man was arrested for replacing price tags in a supermarket with price tags containing the above anti-war labels.  He is facing 10 years in prison.  Also, an artist was sent to pre-trial detention for doing a similar thing-- using fake price tags at a store to distribute anti-war slogans.  Alexandra Skochilenko was placed in remand pending felony prosecution for spreading “false information” about Russia’s military after a customer reported her to the police.   She is facing 10-15 years in prison.