This work made using a found image and acrylic paint is exploring the theme of propaganda and its effect on people. The photograph vividly depicts the uniformity of the marching young men, whose appearance and athleticism were used in the USSR as an idealized symbol of the idea of the “New Citizen”. In this way, it’s an image of the totalitarian regimes’ desire to produce uniformity through ideological thinking. But it can also refer to any party or institution using established ideas to create intellectual conformism. The red colour of the thread refers to biomorphic imagery, like parasites, blood vessels or intestines. Also, it’s the colour of the Soviet flag. Such altering of a found photograph resembles the approaches the Surrealists employed in the 1920s-30s, who have explored the notion of the uncanny – making the familiar strange and disturbing.