Welcome To Sochi, Comrade!

A computer screen shows images of Vasily Slonov's satirical posters, one of which depicts a fanged Josef Stalin disguised as a friendly bear.

Other posters show terrifying interpretations of Russian cultural icons: a matryoshka doll and the Soviet-era animated character Cheburashka.

Vasily Slonov laughs over reproductions of his oil paintings from the series "Welcome! Sochi 2014."

Signs point visitors to the GULAG, the Chornobyl nuclear plant, Siberia, and Lubyanka, the seat of the Federal Security Service (FSB).

An aircraft-shaped matryoshka doll flies over Slonov's imagined Russia.