YOU WANT WAR — YOU GIVE BIRTH

YOU WANT WAR — YOU GIVE BIRTH
(Сам воюешь — сам рожай), 2025

Street intervention (mixed media) opposite the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Stockholm

This street action appeared on 10 December 2025 — the final day of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence and International Human Rights Day. We placed it directly across from the Russian Consulate to deliver our message straight to Putin’s regime.

The slogan unmasks their hypocrisy: men are sent to die in the war of aggression against Ukraine, while women are simultaneously ordered to give birth — to replace the losses and improve demographic statistics. Both are disguised as “traditional values”.

Context

Since the 2022 full-scale invasion, Russia’s birth rate has reached the lowest level in a century. The aftermath of the 1990s has been compounded by hundreds of thousands killed and wounded, rising poverty, and mass emigration throughout the 2020s. The Kremlin’s response is reproductive violence. In more than 20 regions abortions are now severely restricted or effectively unavailable; in over ten regions there are fines for “promoting abortion”. Women are forced to listen to the fetal heartbeat, undergo manipulative “counselling”, and face deliberate delays in hospitals that push them past the legal deadline. Doctors are forbidden to present abortion as an option. State-funded Orthodox anti-abortion organisations flourish. Televised priests insist a woman must give birth even after rape. Women’s bodies are turned into a demographic resource for the war.

Who we are

Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAR) is a banned, decentralised Russian movement that emerged on the second day of the full-scale war. We fight the lethal alliance of militarism and patriarchy, support Ukrainian refugees and Russian women political prisoners, run a hotline for those facing repression, and defend the right to abortion. In 2023 we received the Aachen Peace Prize.

Artist

Ally Stavensky is a designer, artist, and political activist of Ukrainian and Evenki descent. A political refugee living in Sweden, she is a member of the anti-colonial movement Buryad-Mongol Erkheten, which advocates for an independent Buryatia. Her activism began in 2011 in Irkutsk, Siberia, when she brought 1,500 people onto the streets against United Russia (Putin’s ruling party) in a small provincial city. Her artistic and political work focuses on reviving the national identity of colonised peoples and defending women’s rights. She is a fierce opponent of reproductive violence and states that femicide is currently taking place in Russia.

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Financial support: https://patreon.com/FAR_

YOU WANT WAR — YOU GIVE BIRTH