The inscriptions “in the form of a merger of two people, V.V. Putin and A. Hitler.” How a family of artists were imprisoned for anti-war graffiti

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“I was afraid of the war, of how it could end for all of us. I was brought up to believe that war is the worst thing that man has ever come up with. What is my fault? And the video that I shared, I don’t think it’s fake <…> If I see Kharkov, which was bombed, then for me it’s Kharkov, which was bombed and nothing more. <…> And yes, I’m scared, as a woman and as a person. To the man! Not a slave. A free and honest man."

This is Lyudmila Razumova’s last word at the trial, in which she refused to confess and stated that she considered the videos published on her Odnoklassniki page to be reliable.

Alexander Martynov and Lyudmila Razumova are common-law spouses. Both lived in Novozavidovskoye, a small village in the Tver region. Alexander is 64 years old, he retired and worked part-time as a taxi driver in Tver. Lyudmila is 56 years old, she is a housewife, took care of the garden, and was interested in photography. She has three children from her first marriage - a seventeen-year-old daughter, Marusya, and two adult sons, Dmitry and Anton. The girl now lives with her dad.