C'thulu invades Russian playgrounds?

[NinjaHippy]

Third picture down.

Needless to say, I just about crapped my pants.

[Terraoblivion]

I always knew Russia was a "unique" place, but this is just freaky. I am at a complete loss for words to describe what the designers of those things were thinking...

[Player_Zero]

I wish we had some squid monsters in the playground around here...

[Spiryt]

C'thulu and skeletons are really cool. And wasps and Aligator, creative. Playgrounds aren't about bright colors and all, people! Live is tough in Eastern Europe!

Anyway, some things are just plain weird and the some...

Well, some are normal postcomunistic hopelessness - I mean those horses, snakes and other "artistically" and "carefully" made stuff. Can be still spoted in some places in Poland , too.

[Phase]

Nightmare fuel ahoy!

Russia is weird...

[Darius Midnite]

Traumatising. Truly.

What happened to funny clowns? Guess they killed them...

[chiasaur11]

We need some good "In Russia" jokes, STAT.

[RationalGoblin]

We need some good "In Russia" jokes, STAT.

In Soviet Russia, YOU play with Cthulu's mind!

In Soviet Russia, playground plays on you...?

[Tengu]

Why weren't there any Cthulhus on the playgrounds where I used to play!

The rest looks pretty familiar and didn't even make me raise an eyebrow, though. Welcome to a post-Soviet playground, everyone.

[rubakhin]

RUSSIAN PLAYGROUNDS = EFFING CREEPY.

They're all dismal and grey and Soviet, full of weird graffiti and crawling with tetanus and rust. My childhood was awesome. Ah, to be young again.

[randman22222]

I am unappreciative of where Cthulu's hand is going...

[Illiterate Scribe]

To be honest, I was more worried by the goastelephant, from that gallery (SFW, but not SFmind):

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[Thiel]

I am unappreciative of where Cthulu's hand is going...

Cthulu: Mind wreaking elder evil and child molester?

To be fair, I've seen a lot of similar stuff here in Denmark. Well, except for Cthulu, the speared crocodile and the poop slides.

[Trog]

Somehow Trog always pictured C'thulu being... taller.

[FdL]

Somehow Trog always pictured C'thulu being... taller.

Hmmm...He's clearly an impostor. I really hope there isn't anyone inside of that :p

[TigerHunter]

I am unappreciative of where Cthulu's hand is going...

Indeed. As if he's not creepy enough when he's not molesting three year olds.

A lot of that stuff is really creative, but some of it is just... creepy. C'thulu and the elephant and the murdered crocodile creep me out the most.

[SDF]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw the crocodile and thought of the movie Hook. That. Is. Awesome.

[chiasaur11]

I just realized why our favorite Lovecraftian cosmic horror is doing this.

He wants to replace Santa.

[Lюk]

Where in Russia is this? Might pop over to look at it next time I'm in Petes if I'm there...

and I think you'll find its GrandFather Frost in Russia he's replacing... Good ol' Dedyshka Moroz and his army snowman henchman...

[Collin152]

I just realized why our favorite Lovecraftian cosmic horror is doing this.

He wants to replace Santa.

C'thulu had a wonderful, awful idea...

[Warpfire]

I wish my playground had Cthulhu (that's the correct spelling, by the way) in it.

But if you scroll down to the comments, there are people claiming that a lot of these pictures aren't from playgrounds and some aren't even from Russia.

[Collin152]

I wish my playground had Cthulhu (that's the correct spelling, by the way) in it.

But if you scroll down to the comments, there are people claiming that a lot of these pictures aren't from playgrounds and some aren't even from Russia.

Are there any that are neither from playgrounds or Russia?

[rubakhin]

Yeah, I noticed that - one of them is definitely from, like, Prague or someplace, if you look at the city in the background, it's not a Russian background at all ...

Here are some more, including some from Piter. A few more on the site too.

[Lюk]

Yeah, I noticed that - one of them is definitely from, like, Prague or someplace, if you look at the city in the background, it's not a Russian background at all ...

Here are some more, including some from Piter. A few more on the site too.

lol, ну погади!...

[Terraoblivion]

The one with the city in the background might not be from Russia, but it isn't from Prague either. I have been to that city enough to know what it looks like and that isn't the way. But it could be in pretty much any other eastern European city or large town though.

[rubakhin]

lol, ну погади!...

haha, I noticed that! Заяц и Волк ...

[Flickerdart]

Hm...no, my childhood missed the horrific Soviet playgrounds...I grew up among the crappy painted steel contraptions that passed for playgrounds in the early 90s. But some things were left over, and they were pretty funny.

[InaVegt]

Bah, except for the elder evil, most of this isn't any worse that some of what's seen in the so called 'western' world.

I'm sure that if you go about selecting stuff from the 'western' world as selectively and untruthfully as they did, you'd have a selections that's at the very least equally bad, and most likely worse.

[poleboy]

haha, I noticed that! Заяц и Волк ...

Mind sharing the joke in non-cyrillic?

Anwyay, I'm disturbed by the number of people here claiming "Oh, that's normal in Russia/Eastern Europe. Some of those things are freaky! The pooping elephant would probably make kids laugh, but the huge evil doctor with a syringe? Or the defaced evil child-caricatures dying in the snow? That scares even adults.

[rubakhin]

Mind sharing the joke in non-cyrillic?

In one of the links there are a couple of characters from the Russian children's cartoon Nu, Pogodi!, Wolf and Rabbit.