2024-07-04 07:07:04
A similar situation happened in Visaginas, where local creators decided to sell socks depicting the explosion of an atomic bomb.
„Atomic past“ (English atomic past) and “bright future” (English. bright future) – the local brand “Visaga wear” offers two different inscriptions on the socks, and they depict a nuclear power plant and a giant fireball.
It is Visaginas that is famous for its defunct, but once very powerful former power plant, and it is often called the mysterious “atomic city” itself.
But for the past few years, the world has been gripped by the fear of a possible nuclear war threatened by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
The representatives of the brand are convinced that art can be interpreted differently, so each person can also understand the message being sent differently.
For her part, the woman from Visginia, who saw the announcement on social networks, doubts whether such businessmen’s ideas are generally acceptable in today’s context.
She did not understand
With his observations about the discovered unusual socks with a portal lrytas.lt shared by a girl living in Visaginas.
She had questions about why the businessmen of Visaginas chose such a creative solution in such a tense geopolitical situation.
“A local business in Visaginas created socks with a visualization of a nuclear explosion. In today’s context, due to the threat of using a nuclear weapon, it turned out to be so sad…” – the woman from Visginia did not hide her disappointment.
She testified that she had never seen such socks anywhere, so she assumed that the creators started making them recently.
“As far as I understand, these are socks-news. Until now, they were with such a laconic inscription, a different model, without any “slogan” and certainly without a nuclear explosion,” explained the girl.
“We consider it our success”
The Visaginas tourism development center also shared the news about these socks – it’s true, they didn’t criticize them, but reported that socks can already be purchased in this center.
“Good news! Visaga.wear has heard our requests and yours, so we’re excited to announce that Visaga socks are back on our shelves.
We recommend buying 2 pairs of socks and mixing them,” the center’s Facebook account says.
As a portal lrytas.lt Tatjana Dmitrijeva, tourism manager of the Visaga Tourism Development Center, said, it seems that the idea of Visaga wear representatives was simply not well understood by some people.
“Our center sells goods of artists and creators of Visaginas according to consignment agreements. These socks are a product of Visaga’s youth initiative (Visaga.wear). “Explosion” is painted on the socks.
It can be interpreted ambiguously, but the creators did not want to show the power of the weapon, but that the youth of Visaginas explode with emotions (energy), achievements, and that the whole world will see it”, – this is how T. Dmitrijeva explained the meaning of the explosion painted on the socks.
However, according to the representative of the Visaginas Tourism and Development Center, it should be emphasized that the phenomenon visualized in the socks is an “explosion” and not an atomic bomb.
“By the way, there are more “atomic” things in Visaginas, such as “atomic” pizza in the “Block III” restaurant, fireworks are sold in stores, and so on,” T. Dmitriyeva commented.
Visaga wear’s own representatives also presented their position – according to them, art in this case can be interpreted in many different ways.
“And everyone finds their own meaning and message in it. If our design evokes emotion and makes people think for even a moment, we consider it our success.
Our goal is to provoke people to think and discuss”, – to the portal lrytas.lt brand representatives stated.
Nuclear weapons have been a sore topic since February 2022, when, after Russia started a full-scale war in Ukraine, Kremlin leader V. Putin began threatening Western countries with this.
It has been talked about for some time that, fearing a possible nuclear war, the leaders of some countries lack the determination to help and support Ukraine more by providing it with weapons.
2024-07-04 07:07:04