Video «Fall of Washington, ” 2003

When the US made its bold move and invaded Iraq after the September 11th attacks, it became clear that wars were now informational in nature—and what really happened, we will never know. But that isn’t important!What mattered was that they repeated the words «freedom» and «tyranny» five hundred times.And they filmed and showed:a furious crowd dismantling the Saddam Hussein monument;the mansions where the scoundrel lived while the country’s population languished in poverty;the occupying troops distributing humanitarian aid to the starving;the US President declaring victory from the deck of an aircraft carrier;and how the new democratic administration hung the defeated tyrant, without dragging the process out indefinitely.All based on a script.At that time, the artist Shaburov and his groupmate from the «Blue Noses» collective, Mizin, set about listing the stereotypical narratives that needed to be shown to the audience to convince them that the process of «exporting democracy» was proceeding normally.They did this, however, using an absurd example—as if Russia were outraged by a «violation of rights and freedoms» in the US and wanted to export «democracy» there.