Ukraine

Welcome!  Sochi 2014

This rather odd political card comes from Ukraine around the beginning of the Russian take over of Crimea and eventual trouble in the rest of eastern Ukraine and the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic games.  

The figure in the card is Cheburashka a character from Soviet writer Eduard Uspensky's 1966 story and later a series of Soviet stop-motion films.  The character offers bread in a Slavic welcoming gesture, but the character's face is covered in a leather-like zipped mask.  The sender calls this card "black humor" and is "dedicated to Russia's aggression [to] my country."

This card features the following four stamps of a lighthouse, a train-car, a windmill, and a dance.