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1985 Wendy's ad: anti-Soviet propaganda

Talk about propaganda! I mean the one thing they had was hot women, hence the song Back in the USSR!


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Re: 1985 Wendy's ad: anti-Soviet propaganda

lol. It made a great point though.

Part of the reason the Soviet Union collapsed is because the Russians began seeing through media how great life was in the West.

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lol

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I mean the one thing they had was hot women, hence the song Back in the USSR!


That is a song that is all about being sarcastic.

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True, but it's absolutely true that "The Ukraine girls really knock me out,
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my mind!"
And Paul was an expert!

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Russian prostitutes peed on Trump.

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I do not doubt that and that he is a freak who is into golden showers.

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Makes you wonder how freaky Hunter Biden got with all that cocaine, and underage prostitutes.

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Oh, the Trump pee story only makes me like him a bit more. I'm a Democrat and I didn't vote for Trump. But I've always admired his brash style.

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Weird how defensive he gets of Trump though.

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Defensive of facts. I don't idolize anyone.🙂

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Me too, I have no problem with a hot chick peeing on me if I'm in the mood.

It's best in a hotel room so I don't have to worry about cleaning up.

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The song was inspired by The Beach Boys and that part was suggested by their lead singer Mike Love and it is a nod to their California Girls song.

But it is still sarcasm though or a tongue in cheek nod to Russia.

Tapes exist of The Beatles in Rishikesh singing a song about spiritual regeneration in the style of The Beach Boys: a performance not a million miles away stylistically from the Esher demo version of “Back In The USSR.” The song morphs into a “Happy Birthday Mike Love” song, in honor of The Beach Boys’ vocalist, who was studying Transcendental Meditation with them at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Indian Ashram.

Rishikesh was always likely to inspire creativity. Set against a backdrop where the mighty Ganges gives way to the verdant foothills of the Himalayas, this was an enclave of serenity, a place where artists such as The Beatles would be able to allow their work to simply flood out of them, free from the shackles of the modern world.

“You ought to talk about the girls all around Russia”
Love has recalled Paul McCartney strolling out from his hut at the ashram one morning: “I was sitting at the breakfast table and McCartney came down with his acoustic guitar and he was playing “Back In The USSR,” and I told him that what you ought to do is talk about the girls all around Russia, the Ukraine, and Georgia. He was plenty creative not to need any lyrical help from me, but I gave him the idea for that little section… I think it was light-hearted and humorous of them to do a take on The Beach Boys.”

McCartney’s final lyric does indeed talk about girls from the various parts of the USSR (“Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out/They leave the west behind/And Moscow girls make me sing and shout/That Georgia’s always on my mind”) just as The Beach Boys’ ‘California Girls’ does for the US (“Well East Coast girls are hip/I really dig those styles they wear/And the Southern girls with the way they talk/They knock me out when I’m down there”).

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The Beatles were also appealing to the left wing chic of people in the 1960's.

Conversely to the Wendy's ad, McCartney was trying to dispel prejudices against the Soviet Union. It was a bit of magnanimity, and The Beatles did have fans in the U.S.S.R.

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The song is not meant to be taken all that seriously and just what in the Sam Hill was so fun about Russia at the time?

Maca did say that he wrote the song from the viewpoint of a Russian spy returning home from his mission in America.
So he is towing the communist line and finding his mother land to be better even though it was very oppressive at the time.

And who knows if Mike and Maca actually knew if Russian girls were hot or good looking?
Sometimes songs are just written with imagination with no basis in reality.
Like all those early Beatles love songs.
I used to think they were in love when they wrote them but they were not for most of them.


Did you know that retreating Russian soldiers would be shot and killed even though they would have had no chance in battle?
That is depicted in the WW II era movie Enemy at the Gates in a couple of scenes.

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I'm just saying look at the historical context. The 1960's was a time of leftist protests on college campuses. The Beatles probably thought the Beach Boys were cheesy. Russia good. Amerika bad.

Who shot retreating Russian soldiers?

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Actually The Beatles admired The Beach Boys and were influenced by them.
Not just from this song but Sgt. Peppers was in response to Beach Boys album Pet Sounds which came out before.


Russia had set up what they called Barrier Troops or Blocking Units to keep fellow soldiers from retreating and deserting.

It appears that mowing them down with machine gun fire may not have happened all that much as depicted in movies and instead they pretty much arrested and sent them back to the front or executed some later on.

On September 12, 1941 Joseph Stalin issued the Stavka Directive No. 1919 (Директива Ставки ВГК №001919) concerning the creation of barrier troops in rifle divisions of the Southwestern Front, to suppress panic retreats. Each Red Army division was to have an anti-retreat detachment equipped with transport totaling one company for each regiment. Their primary goal was to maintain strict military discipline and to prevent disintegration of the front line by any means.[8] These barrier troops were usually formed from ordinary military units and placed under NKVD command.

In 1942, after Stavka Directive No. 227 (Директива Ставки ВГК №227) issued on 28 July 1942, set up penal battalions, anti-retreat detachments were used to prevent withdrawal or desertion by penal units as well. Penal military unit personnel were always rearguarded by NKVD anti-retreat detachments, and not by regular Red Army infantry forces.[6] As per Order No. 227, each Army should have had 3–5 barrier squads of up to 200 persons each.

A report to the Commissar General of State Security (NKVD chief) Lavrentiy Beria on October 10, 1941, noted that since the beginning of the war, NKVD anti-retreat troops had detained a total of 657,364 retreating, spies, traitors, instigators and deserting personnel, of which 25,878 were arrested (of which 10,201 were sentenced to death by court martial and the rest were returned to active duty).[9]

At times, barrier troops were involved in battle operations along with regular soldiers, as noted by Aleksandr Vasilevsky in his directive N 157338 from October 1, 1942.

Order No. 227 also stipulated the capture or shooting of "cowards" and fleeing panicked troops at the rear the blocking detachments, who in the first three months shot 1,000 penal troops and sent 24,993 to penal battalions.[10] By October 1942 the idea of regular blocking detachments was quietly dropped, and on 29 October 1944 Stalin officially ordered the disbanding of the units.[11]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_troops#Barrier_troops_in_the_Red_Army

Re: 1985 Wendy's ad: anti-Soviet propaganda

Lol, yeah right, some parts of Russia have some of the most beautiful women in the world.

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That's not really the point. Russian women or any women can be as innately beautiful as women anywhere in the world.

The point is that the Soviet Union enforced a dire anti-materialistic lifestyle on its people. There were food lines for bread. How long were the lines for make-up and sanitary napkins? I just know when my brother-in-law was in the military, he told me women in Eastern Europe didn't shave their armpits.

The commercial is a parody of course. But it makes a point about the lower quality of life in the old Soviet Union.

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What girls shaving their armpits has to do with anything escapes me. Do you mean he was in the US military, but went to Eastern Bloc countries? Or could you mean countries aligned with the West? Anyway take it from me: Eastern European women are hotter in general than Westerners. I mean each has pros and cons.

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Huh? I'm American. In the U.S. women shave their armpits. Unless maybe you live in some Ozarks backwater. My point and the point in the video is that Eastern Europeans are more utilitarian. Do you think a Communist nation like the Soviet Union placed much emphasis on all the accoutrements of our capitalist vanities?

And I didn't want to offend Sophie but my brother-in-law was in Germany. He said most the women don't shave their legs or armpits. You mean you don't get how that applies to this Wendy's ad?

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You do know Germany is a Western country, right? Or do you mean women shaved their armpits or not depending on which side of the wall they were? Actually women shaving armpits is a US thing vs. European; i.e. most women in Europe did not, at least at that time. This is regardless of what side of the Iron Curtain they were on.
Either way I still don't see what it has to do with this ad. Are you saying women who do are more attractive then those who don't? That's purely subjective, i.e. a cultural thing. But the US did a good job of bringing our culture and hence products to Europe and the world.
Again I don't see the relevance to the former USSR or this ad.

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That is how we stereotyped their women at the time.
Out of shape, older, and not attractive because those were the images we got of them.

If there were any cute and younger looking hotties, how did we know?

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By checking the pages of Playboy for pictorials like The Reds Hot Women of Russia. Not that I ever did that, mind you.



PS And actually, that's the joke, that we stereotyped their women like that.

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I really dig it when we are on the same wavelength and can chat about things instead of fighting like we used to do!

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I thought this was an SCTV sketch. When I was a kid I would sometimes watch the show on VHS tapes that were recorded from television. I remembered this being from the episode when CCCP 1 takes over SCTV's airwaves and that John Candy played the announcer. It must have been on one of the tapes.

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My favorite Wendy's video.
Look at the seductiveness in her eyes.
I'd show her with a beef is.



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