The Auteur

Always by nature a friendly girl, she met PPPP(Progressive Political Pornography) co-founder Dmitri Yuri Myshkin on the other side of a glory hole in the men's lavoratory of a downtown Omsk cafe. Following this impromptu audition, for which Vladrushka still complains about not being paid, Myshkin decided to involve her with many collaborations in the headquarters of the PPP. He also decided to film some of it, editing the footage into a series of films that, in East Germany, were described as "indescribable," another hailing Comfort Girl NKVD, Sucking Stalin and Cheka Delight in particular as "abominable."

Putin's Plan

These reached the attention of young Dresden KGB operative Vladimir Putin, who later claimed to have done "prodigious research" into her work. Sending altered versions of the reviews to Myshkin pretending to be an important schiesse producer, he lured Myshkin and Vladrushka to East Berlin and made them an offer which the guns to their heads made it difficult to refuse. But those became unnecessary when a suddenly aroused Vladrushka went down upon Putin readily, and once Myshkin had been given a dry pair of pants, a deal was signed, as well as a list of names he gave to Putin of his fellow members of the PPP. They were executed in a dirty basement five days later, after being tried and convicted for corrupting a minor.

Putin's plan was a simple one, and designed to raise his status in the KGB. The labor camps across Siberia that built all of the U.S.S.R.'s railways, heavy machinery, consumer goods, that mined its ore, made its electricity, and tested its bombs, was suffering a labor shortage, due to liberalized policies and increasing obedience on the part of the population. The Party had cleaned up public mores too well. Nobody was being arrested, and the laborers in the north were gradually dying off. A decadent influence had to be introduced into Soviet society. If no one could be arrested, how would the roads get paid? Who would smelt the steel? Putin decided that Myshkin and Vladrushka's pornographic films, all works of strong, if frivolous, anti-Soviet satire, were just the thing to inspire the young to criminal acts of individualism. Otherwise, how was the Trans-Siberian Railway to be maintained?

The Superstar

Overnight her films were promoted to the hilt in East Germany, and people flocked to see them because they felt they were being daring. However, the patrons were required to register their names with their tickets, which helped Putin narrow down whom he would arrest much later, once the filth they had watched did its work. Myshkin and Vladrushka went on to make many, many more films, culminating in what is universally acknowledged as the best they could do, Gulag Gangbang. Because of Vladrushka's constant requests for retakes, and exhausting of male co-stars, the budget of the film went so high that Gorbachev, always skeptical of Putin's pet project, but not wanting to raise the ire of the KGB, was forced to use nearly the entire defense budget of the Soviet Union for one year to pay for it. This included his own bodyguards, and the rest is history.

The Dreamers

Available right now from JLRoberson and Eros/Fantagraphics: 

"Gulag Gangbang," a full-length tale of Vladrushka, and her infamous movie that brought down the USSR, in, well, ahem... Blowjob #19 (the final issue).