Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z-poetry’
over the past year. His odes to Vladimir Putin and emotive verses in support of Russia’s war in Ukraine drew appreciation on social media and even the occasional honourable mention in Russian poetry prizes.
“We read collections of Z-poetry and saw straight-up nazism there. We suspected that they probably wrote exactly the same things in Nazi Germany, and we turned out to be right,” said the group behind the project, in written responses to questions from the Guardian. They said they wanted to remain anonymous for reasons of safety.
, were generated by artificial intelligence, said the authors. This did not stop numerous Russian politicians becoming friends with the account on Vkontakte, a Russian social network.
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