Stalin as Repo Man.
A Ukrainian heating company has put up posters of Stalin around the city of Donetsk to strongly encourage citizens to pay their past-due bills. "It was the nearest we could get to intimidating people without sending round the heavy mob," said Alexandra Semchenko, deputy director of the state-owned Donetsk Heating Company. Risking limbs and life, a copyranter operative from the area has obtained an image of one of the posters (right). Pasting the copy into my always-accurate free translator reveals this: "Pay your heating bills on time Comrades, or your current leaders will purge this bourgeois burg fasting than you can say 'Yakov Smirnoff!'"(via ananova)
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3. 2006 Darwin Award winners.
4. Colonel Gaddafi wants his Coke® money.
posted by copyranter @ 9:30 AM
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Ah, the good old days.
my russian-minor skills are pretty rusty, but it definitely says something about germans in there
It says:
Onward, to the destruction (bombing) of the German invaders and their banishment from the borders of our homeland!
If that won't get you to pay your bills, nothing will.
For decades Russia sold natural gas to the Ukraine at a highly subsidized disocunt rate.
That endeed with the country's Orange revolution. (Remember the bizarre face-changing poisoning of President Yuschenko?)
Now Kiev residents are paying multiples more to heat their homes.
The Uncle Joe ad plays differently in that light.
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