A strange (and obscene) phenomenon occurs Russiawhere they suddenly appear like mushrooms huge ice quarries. The first appeared in front of the opera house and the university, in a central square Yekaterinburg, so impressive that a tractor was needed to dismantle it. However, as La Stampa reveals, these strange sculptures quickly appeared everywhere: in central squares, in peripheral courtyards, in children’s playgrounds and even on the roofs of parked cars. They are large, immaculately white and every anatomical detail has been carefully sculpted.
The epidemic of these unusual snow sculptures with “censorable” shapes has reached such proportions that it is putting pressure on the mayor Alexey Orlov calling it a “disgrace.” This statement, of course, helped spread the unusual phenomenon.
It is impossible to determine exactly who was the first to erect one of these snow phallics in Yekaterinburg. It may have been an act of protest against the city administration for failure to intervene at the first heavy snowfall or for the manifestation of a person’s secret impulses.
In Russia, where mention of genitals is taboo, the flawless snow phallus becomes taboo a symbol of defiance and accusation. The deputy mayor Alexey Bubnov He called the phenomenon a “provocation” and called the police, correctly identifying this form of popular creativity as a covert protest.
Meanwhile, a petition has appeared on Change.org calling for an end to the “pseudo-creativity” of young people in order to “preserve the image of Yekaterinburg.” At the moment it has only collected a few signatures, but the millions of likes on social media are spreading the “Snegochleny” (phallic snow) epidemic to other Russian cities hit by the first snowfalls of autumn. And who knows what he thinks about it Wladimir Putin…