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The Art of SMO - Anti-Russia Campfire Political Meme

This political meme uses a stock photo of six happy friends laughing and hugging while gathered around a campfire on a starry night. Each person is overlaid with the flag of a European country that supports Ukraine and opposes Russia following the 2022 full-scale invasion: from left to right, the flags belong to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine. The flag of Russia is placed directly on the burning campfire, visually representing Russia being burned as a joke. The meme humorously conveys the united anti-Russia stance of these Eastern and Northern European countries in the context of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Overview

This political meme uses a stock photo of six happy friends laughing and hugging while gathered around a campfire on a starry night. Each person is overlaid with the flag of a European country that supports Ukraine and opposes Russia following the 2022 full-scale invasion: from left to right, the flags belong to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine. The flag of Russia is placed directly on the burning campfire, visually representing Russia being burned as a joke. The meme humorously conveys the united anti-Russia stance of these Eastern and Northern European countries in the context of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Origin notes

This meme was originally posted on the humor platform 9GAG under the original title 'The art of SMO'. It is a user-created edited meme that adds national flag overlays to a pre-existing stock photograph of friends camping to make a political statement about the war in Ukraine.

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