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God and Putin

Satire Fiction about Putin

28 total reviews 
Comment from Shirley McLain
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What Putin is doing makes me sick. It is so bad, but all I can do is watch the news and propaganda from our side. You did a great job with your satire. I didn't see any mistakes. Have a great night. Shirley

 Comment Written 15-Mar-2022


reply by the author on 15-Mar-2022
    Thanks for reading. You are right about Putin!
Comment from mermaids
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This is an excellent satire on Putin. I especially like the line about the operation on the maternity hospital being a "motherly success". Excellent use of words to satirize a monster, creative and clever.

 Comment Written 15-Mar-2022


reply by the author on 15-Mar-2022
    Thank you very much!
Comment from barbara.wilkey
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I tend to agree with this contest entry. We have no clue what's really going on in Ukraine because all we ever get is propaganda. We may never know for sure. Thank you for sharing this with us and good luck with the contest.

 Comment Written 15-Mar-2022


reply by the author on 15-Mar-2022
    Thank you for reading, it is a sad situation.
Comment from J R DUST
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I can't imagine anyone could read this and dislike it. Very well written and thought through! Each sentence had me hooked and desperately scurrying onto the next.

 Comment Written 15-Mar-2022


reply by the author on 15-Mar-2022
    Thank you. I truly would like to light a big firecracker in the putie of Mr. Putin!
Comment from the13thpoet
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Hello fellow writer a good day to you. I hope this review finds you well. As a poet/writer it is always interesting to see the different takes on these contest/writing prompts. I think your take is definitely a good one. Hopefully so will others, good job and good luck in the contest.

 Comment Written 15-Mar-2022


reply by the author on 15-Mar-2022
    Thank you, sir! I do appreciate it.
Comment from RGstar
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Not sure if Satire fits well for this period of madness, as my mixed feelings when reading, yet, ludicrous it points to, and ludicrous it is. I wonder what else one can make of all of this. It is difficult to smile at such a time, given the facts. Still, satire it is. This might have brought a smile at some other period in time, but right now, your well written piece, in respect of the form, the only solace.
Good luck in the competition.
My best wishes.
RGstar

 Comment Written 15-Mar-2022


reply by the author on 15-Mar-2022
    You are right of course, but the only way to protest Mr. Putin through this contest was dripping sarcasm. I would be happy to light a fuse to the large firecracker up Mr. Putin's putie! Thank you for reading.
Comment from karenina
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Either very sharp satire or a reflection of the delusion of altered reality Putin is spoon feeding his minions either way a testament to how distortion becomes truth in a vacuum.
Putin is a GOD! If you don't believe it? Just ask him!

Karenina


 Comment Written 15-Mar-2022


reply by the author on 15-Mar-2022
    Karenina, you are the first to "get" that I did not mention God directly in the story, because he thinks he is God. That was a part of satire or maybe sarcasm I was going for in the title, good job. I would be happy to light a giant firecracker firmly planted in the putie of Mr. Putin.
reply by karenina on 15-Mar-2022
    I read that LOUD and CLEAR!
    Great job!
Comment from Ricky1024
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"God and Putin '
This is a Putin's Special Operation Contest Entry.
Rich in putrid Theme and sickening Imagery.
As if cast from the bowls of Hell.
...
This read well and flowed well with no Grammar Issues.
The Adjective and Objective Contents were both Excellent and Exceptional while Descriptive Measures aligned Perfectly.
Good luck with this one.
Doctor Ricky 1024

 Comment Written 14-Mar-2022


reply by the author on 14-Mar-2022
    Thank you Dr. Ricky!
Comment from lyenochka
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I think you did the satire believably well. I liked how you listed the very companies that are no longer doing business with Russia now. This was exactly how the Soviet Union operated changing the news to propaganda.
In "oppressive bonds of democracy," I might even change that to "facism" as Putin claims to be liberating Ukraine from nazism even as he bombed the Holocaust Memorial and Zelensky is Jewish!

Best wishes in the contest!

 Comment Written 14-Mar-2022


reply by the author on 14-Mar-2022
    Thank you very much, The Unknown Author.
Comment from dellsworthpoet
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A very cutting satire. The only missing theme is that of redirection. As in "That situation is regretable ...look squirrel."

The language is slightly overblown as one might expect from a dictatorial type. The flow is good. The tongue in cheek approach is amusing.

Thanks for a good read.

 Comment Written 14-Mar-2022


reply by the author on 14-Mar-2022
    Thank you very much, I wish I had thought about the missing theme!