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The scandal occurred on the first day of the company’s operations in Ukraine. Photo: Wild Blueberries
The largest Russian online trading platform Wildberries entered the Ukrainian market, but its launch in the eighth country in the world began with a scandal. T-shirts and souvenirs with portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin, USSR Secretary General Joseph Stalin, books for the preparation of the Unified State Examination and other articles caught the attention of Ukrainian bloggers. The outraged users made a real scandal on social networks.
Wildberries began work in Ukraine on September 21. Users were able to purchase clothes, shoes, toys and other products through the website and the smartphone app. In total, the country’s buyers had access to more than 3 million items.
Among them, there was a place for symbols of the USSR, Russia, atypical for the Ukrainian market of the last six years, T-shirts with Putin, “educated people” and even Stalin in the image of a brutal motorcyclist.
Ukrainians were also offered to buy an embroidery kit with the image of the Russian leader and an album for collecting coins, the cover of which shows Crimea and Sevastopol on the background of a double-headed eagle with a tricolor.
Ukrainian Facebook users did not ignore such an exotic variety of Wildberries in modern Ukraine. In particular, they ask Ukrainian security officials to intervene in the politics of the site.
“He’s so happy he’s burning his ass (…) The Security Service of Ukraine, what do you think of this situation?” Blogger Anton Khodza is outraged. He was also outraged by the fact that the courier companies Novaya Pochta and Meest allegedly cooperate with the trading platform. However, according to Anton, it was later clarified at Novaya Pochta that no contract had been concluded with Wildberries.
It is noteworthy that, at the moment, for the queries “Putin”, “Russia”, “Stalin”, “USSR”, the site search is not displayed in the scandalous results from the point of view of the blogosphere symbols from Ukraine. Probably Wildberries prohibited their sale on the territory of Ukraine due to the scandal that arose.
Recall that recently in Odessa, the Primorsky Court, at the request of the SBU, placed a resident of the city under house arrest who posted on his Facebook page the coat of arms of the USSR, images of a hammer and sickle, a a five-pointed star and a portrait of a certain communist leader. Now the man faces five years in prison.
Earlier, “Strana” discovered how, under the Zelensky government, investigations of cases on the use of Soviet symbols continue.
