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On 10 july 2022, nine women conducted the performance For the Russian wives in front of the russian embassy in Prague. This performance was initiated and guided by Kateryna Mamchut and supported by Artivist’s lab and Meetfactory.
A megaphone, held by Kateryna Mamchut, is blasting information about how russian military is using rape as a dirty weapon in Ukraine.
She is accompanied by eight women on her side, standing in a line, listening, then the nine women put off their underwear, attaching it on the fence together with their wedding rings and a letter, addressed to the russian wives.
“Here are my things, I’m giving them to you voluntarily, just don’t touch the Ukrainian women!”
The women return and they stand in a line in front of the fence again, watching their underwear, their rings and the letters attached to it, and finally they listen one more time to the text, blasting out of the megaphone, before they leave, crossing a bridge, painted in yellow and blue.
“For the russian wives” is dedicated to the wives of the russian military, who are not ashamed to express their hatred for Ukrainians in general, including women and children.
Russian soldiers rape Ukrainian women with brutal cruelty.
Apparently these wives approve of the actions of their husbands. In one of the infamous telephone conversations with the husband-invader his wife said: Go there, rape Ukrainian women and don’t tell me anything. Is it clear? The important thing is to use protection (meaning condom).
Soldiers send to their homes not only household appliances and carpets. They send private items such as worn lingerie, rings and cosmetics. Did this lingerie belonged to the women they raped, are the wives of Russian invaders wearing the rings of Ukrainian girls and women?
Credits: Josef Rabara.
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