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XIII. District (ANGYALFÖLD) Politics & History

A Russian warship carrying Vladimir Putin — placed atop a large, stone-carved, stylized middle finger with a signet ring shaped like Ukraine’s coat of arms (the trident). Kolodko’s largest and most unambiguous political sculpture to date.

It references the famous radio message from Ukrainian border guards on Snake Island at the start of the Russian intervention on 24 February 2022: when the Russian cruiser "Moskva" demanded their surrender, they simply replied: "Russian warship, go f*** yourself" – the phrase became a rallying cry of Ukrainian resistance. The "Moskva" itself was sunk a few weeks later.

Kolodko chose the location deliberately: the Moszkva Promenade in Budapest, named after that very city. Since the statue is also seen by children, he stylised the finger rather than making it explicitly obscene, as he explained to 444.hu.

AddressOn the south side of Árpád Bridge, Pest side, on Moszkva sétány.

GPS47.536130, 19.057970

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