(Balkan Cruelty)
The brutal behavior of the Turkish army in its oppressive wars against the Greeks (and other Balkan Christian peoples). In the scenes, light-skinned women are being humiliated, ravished, and raped by darker- skinned Turkish soldiers.
On the first card, set within a church, an Eastern Orthodox priest is bound to a railing and forced to witness several naked women being sexually abused by Turks. Three of the women struggle against their captors while a fourth, in the foreground, appears to have passed out. It is an affront not only to white womanhood, but to Christianity itself on the part of the savage outsider.
A second card depicts a Turkish soldier viciously attacking a woman; her terror is reflected on her face and by her frantic attempt to physically resist. The soldier’s hand is claw-like as he restrains the woman and his eyes are filled with lust. The juxtaposition of dark skin to light skin is highlighted as is clothed to unclothed bodies.
On a third card, a male villager has been hanged, and the naked captives are being presented by the soldiers to their officers.
The white woman as a symbol of innocence, purity and virtue has persisted as a powerful image throughout recent centuries
One Comment
aris
Αγριεμένο σε βλέπω πατριώτη!!
Για κοίτα εκείνη τη second card σου φαίνεται για her terror is reflected on her face and by her frantic attempt to physically resist?
Ορέ μπας και τονε κρατάει για να μη τση φύγει?
Χουά χα χα χα χα χα.