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Aleksandra was born into a family of artists and picked art to be her career. She graduated from the Publishing and Printing Institute of Kyiv Polytechnic University and Ukrainian Printing Academy in L'viv. Aleksandra is interested mostly in avant-garde and modern art. Her works were exhibited at various art shows in her native Mykolaiv as well as Odesa.

The work illustrates the dangers of aggressive and chauvinistic propaganda and what its influence can lead to. At the top of the painting we see dogs who represent those who carry the propaganda message. The fact that they are dogs shows that they have a master and are not projecting their own point of view. Three figures in between are the targets of propaganda. We can see that some pieces within them are of different color and do not belong to them anymore. In the center of the painting is death. It has no face as we do not know how it looks nor it cares to reveal it to us. On death's shoulders are military epaulettes in the styling of generals willing to sacrifice others’ lives in war for their own advancement. At the bottom are those who are being attacked, who toil the soil and sow their fields, but have come forth to protect their land and country. Thus, in this painting, from top to bottom, we see how propaganda is implemented by clouding the minds of the masses and how those masses are used by the aggressive state to wage a senseless war on those who the state baselessly paints as the enemy.