Art For Art's Sake

And you thought the Eastern Europeans had no sense of humor any more after having it surgically removed by Russian surgeons.

The caption translates "In keeping with the times".

P.J. O'Rourke observed that Eastern Europe, from the Iron Curtain to Siberia is covered with monuments to the point that he described monuments to the monuments. Tedious indeed. A joke from the cold war era describes a Westerner chatting with a Czech, asking him if he considers the Russians to be his friends or his brothers. The Czech answers quickly: "Our brothers, of course!" and after looking around to see that no one was nearby adds "We can choose our friends."

Anyway, this monument is a regular target of the locals. You can see more of their aerosol photoshop work here.