Mag Wars, Polish-Style: Outrage Over Breastfeeding Angela Merkel Cover

Some bizarre international magazine news of note: Conservative Polish newsweekly Wprost is trying their best to cause an international fracas. The cover of their latest issue features German Chancellor Angela Merkel breastfeeding Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski — who, by the way, are identical twins. German newspapers aren’t too happy. Bild criticized its “tastelessness” and the Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger complained of Merkel being “mocked” and “ridiculed.” But that’s not all: It turns out the magazine used a 21-year-old body model for the 52-year-old Chancellor:

“We imagined it to be a little funny,” Janecki says.