There used to be an election poster here and now there’s this thing. It says, “A city that’s comfortable for all.” I think those women — they are women, yes? — are showing the slogan on the red part of the poster: “The city — our beloved home.”
Turns out, this is a poster put up by the Government Agency for the Social Defense of the Population of Moscow, in conjuction with its initiative: “A year of equal rights.”
It’s rather ironic to see this poster just a few yards from a metro station with zero handicap access, over a street with no ramps, in a place where the disabled sit cooped up at home because the city — which is far, far too treacherous to navigate — is probably their very “beloved home.”
Funny part is you could put the slogan on a red banner with a hammer and sickle twenty years ago …
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