Russian Ad Watch: Sexy underwear-clad strawberry stealer chased off by shotgun-wielding peasant.
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This is an ad for Lenin State Farm, near Moscow. The slogan is something like: "Glamour is for fools, vitamins for the People." Vladimir Ilyich would be proud. But you'd think even amateurs would be able to dub in actual shotgun blasts instead of that pea-shooter sound. Previously in: Sexxxy Russian Ad Watch.
posted by copyranter @ 9:30 AM
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I'd like to suggest an alternative title. "Sexy underwear-clad strawberry stealer chased off by shotgun-wielding колхо́зница".
колхо́зница is the Russian for collective farmer or peasant woman.
If anyone (1-t-m?) is interested in the Russian peasant women's history from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, check out Russian Peasant Women, by Beatrice Farnsworth and Lynne Viola (Oxford University Press).
The book covers such topics as family life in the countryside, woman's work, her sexuality, her marital and family positions, her experience of the Bolshevik Revolution, and her role in collectivization of agriculture from its onset in the Stalin years through the Gorbachev era.
I've updated.
Thanks Vinnie, but the idea that a picture can convey what might take many words to express was voiced by a character in Ivan S. Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons, 1862:
"The drawing shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book."
Russian peasant women lead difficult lives, carrying a heavy work load equal to that of a man, working in the household and the outdoors. Children usually helped their mothers with these duties.
http://webpage.pace.edu/nreagin/tempmotherhood/spring02d/thewell.html
> "The drawing shows me at one glance
> what might be spread over ten pages
> in a book."
back then, in 1862, books were smaller, and fit about 100 words per page. :-)
I-)
Ahh, my countrymen and their clever play on words. After the tag line, the voiceover says "Lenin State Farm - bona fide strawberry!" In Russian slang, "strawberry" also means "smut". Hence the naked girl.
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