Political satire on the German carnival

Germany was "mad Monday." The Germans were lucky with the weather - in the middle of the street carnival festivities in the cities of the Rhine was unusually sunny and warm. Under the blue sky, very rare for a carnival pores in Germany, millions of fun clowns. As usual on the streets of German cities was driven carts with large satirical figures made of papier-mache. This year, the satire was as caustic as ever. It has got everything - from Merkel to Gaddafi.
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1. The figures made of papier-mache, depicting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Saudi King Abdullah. Behind perched Jullian Assange, flipping the switches its WikiLeaks.





2. I have received the Nobel Peace Prize Liu Siaobo from China in the form of a yellow Statue of Liberty at the carnival in Cologne. Centre for Carnival, which peaked in "Crazy Monday", as before, the city became the Rhine, Cologne, Mainz and Düsseldorf.



3. The figure of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a swastika, fleeing from the flames of revolution, symbolizing the political unrest in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.



4. grotesque figure of Barack Obama, who is trying to push a camel eye of a needle. The figure symbolizes the futile attempts to establish peace in the Middle East.



5. Bishop with a small boy sitting on a chair, on which is written: "We have every day - Day of Youth." A hint of scandal associated with the numerous cases of sexual abuse of minors by priests.



6. a crumbling house of cards, the cards which represent the countries of North Africa and the Middle East. Map with Hosni Mubarak has fallen ...



7. Known for its its open homosexual German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle in the form of saws, which reads "The bore."



Figure 8. The Libyan leader Gaddafi Muhammad with a barrel of oil and a bag of money from Europe. Europe kisses the Libyan dictator, probably in the stomach.



9. Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, made of papier-mache shows the pilot the plane crashed into the building of the Federal Chancellery. Just a week before the carnival Minister resigned - his PhD thesis was recognized as plagiarism.



10. During the carnival in Dusseldorf was driven through the streets of the figure of women in the robes of the burqa that gradually turn into a bag.



11. Figure ridiculing the decision to hold the FIFA World Championships in Russia and Qatar. Football Federation FIFA caricature depicted as a busty prostitute who holds a banknote one hundred euros.



12. The figure of Angela Merkel as Pippi Longstocking, which on their shoulders alone drags on a "bull of the European Union."



13. Criticism of the authorities for extending the life of nuclear power plants. Princess Merkel and her Frog Prince - German energy companies that control the plant.



14. The figure of papier-mache, depicting German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a cartoon character on the Simpsons, Montgomery Burns, at the carnival in Cologne.



15. The figure of Angela Merkel as a priestess of the cult of voodoo dolls to stick a needle in the carnival in Mainz. On caricature doll in the hands of Merkel - who has submitted the name of the recently retired minister Pogorevshikh plagiarizing.



16. At the carnival in Mainz during the parade through the streets drove figure of papier-mache, depicting Pope with balloons in the form of condoms. This is - a reminder that in an interview late last year, Benedict XVI said that Catholics may sometimes use condoms, but only in certain cases, such as when there is a risk of HIV infection and sexually transmitted diseases. Until now, we recall, the Roman Catholic Church very unflattering comments about condoms and other contraceptive methods, including their sinful.



17. The figure of papier-mache, depicting the last chapter of the German Central Bank, Thilo Sarrazin, a spear piercing Turkish woman with children.



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