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A grotesque, naive-art satirical caricature depicting the cynical exploitation of the Russian people by the state, military, and church. The image features three prominent authority figures riding piggyback on the shoulders of three impoverished, disabled, and exhausted peasants, set against a minimalist backdrop of a flat light blue sky and barren brown dirt ground. Top row (The Riders): On the left, a stern military general with a puffy face, wearing a green Soviet-style uniform with a red peaked cap and multiple colorful medals, his hands pressing heavily down on the head of the man below him. In the center, a caricature of a bald, long-nosed modern authoritarian politician wearing a dark green buttoned tunic with a cross. He has a deadpan expression, saluting with his right hand while clutching a long hanging red-labeled scroll in his left, his hand planted firmly atop an old woman's head. On the right, an Orthodox religious patriarch with a flowing white beard, round glasses, and a white traditional klobuk (headpiece) adorned with a cross and crest, wearing a black robe with a gold cross and resting his hand heavily on the head of a third woman. Bottom row (The Carriers): On the left, a bald elderly man with a bushy grey beard, wide, traumatized, and bulging blue eyes. He wears a green tunic and grey shorts, is completely barefoot, and leans heavily on a single wooden crutch. In the center, a hollow-eyed elderly woman wearing a bright red headscarf, a blue button-down shirt, a red necktie, and a red skirt with a white patched square. She holds a wooden walking stick and wears traditional woven bast shoes (lapti) with leg wrappings. On the right, an elderly woman with a weathered face and a stoic, resigned expression wears a green headscarf, a black coat, a brown skirt, and the same traditional woven bast shoes with leg wrappings. The art style is intentionally unrefined, utilizing thick, rough brushstrokes, flat 2D perspective, and crude proportions to deliver a darkly comedic, cynical critique of the ruling elite riding on the broken backs of the vulnerable, rendered in a twisted, outsider-art folk-painting aesthetic.