Wendy's commercial with Russian theme

[DrunkenDriverStudios]

That's not very nice of you guys :(

[djsufferthing]

In Soviet Russia, commercial watch you! "In Soviet Russia" never gets old... well, not to me anyway.

[AntonKH97]

In soveit russia, Food eats you!

[bozpity]

Damn I miss the cold war. It was good having intelligent enemies instead of knuckled dragging fanatical morons, like Islamic dorks.

[idontknowshutup65]

OH FUCK THIS

[yougotpaid]

this is racist... and it's sickeningly awesome

[QA2]

@yougotpaid Communism isn't a race. It's just regular-type awesome!

[Animalco]

@yougotpaid You might want to find a good dictionary and look up "racist."

[125RTY]

it became a big subject in the soviet union at that time. choice choice? we have plenty of choice. you can choose any color of car, as long as it is black!

[QA2]

@125RTY I thought "any color as long as it's black" was a Henry Ford quote.

[125RTY]

@QA2 just illustrating the point like henry ford long ago you really did not have much choice for anything in the soviet union. of course years later they started coming out with more colors for cars but the soviest never improved.

[Pygar2]

I want to see the post-USSR sequel!

[Mocsk]

Choice of education, healthcare, healthy food, self-actualisation? What for?! Choose burgers!

Funny commercial :)

[Kirssable]

wronggggg))))))

но тупо так))

[jaleits]

This is a damm funny commercial that I rememeber well. I am so glad the West won the cold war!!! You know the Soviet Union was like this back then, so shut the heck up you politically correct left wingnuts!

[Musclevideofreak]

One of the best commercials of all time. Thanks for posting

[RussianMongol]

Seems they reuse some stereotypes leftover from WWII, no one ever dressed like that in Soviet government.

[b5kalad]

This commercial was made back in the early 1980's.

[lollipopfop]

@RussianMongol This has nothing to do with WW2, and you are probably right; the Communist Party members probably had the best of everything and dressed well, but if you look at the pictures you will see that they are fat, ugly, and have that mean scowl. The average Russian did however have nothing but ugly grey clothing to wear. Just like that.

[Gringao22]

Great commercial...one of my all-time favorites.

[pcantwell]

This was a great marketing campaign making fun of my (the U.S.A.) government's propaganda of the 1950s and 1960s.

[otchenashenko]

funny bot not politcorrect. anyway it's retro.

[lionfiretx]

In Russia Clothes wear you!

[jaleits]

I remember this commercial from my senior year in high school. It may be the funniest and one of the most memorable commercials of all time! It is simply hilarious!!!

[b5kalad]

Me too. It was ten times better than were is the beef.

[hebneh]

I thought this was hilarious when it was new, and I still thinks it's hilarious, and I love that I can see it again on YouTube.

[jacoboforlando]

PS - in the eighties when this was made, it did in fact accurately reflect the Soviets.

Sorry, but it's a fact.

[b5kalad]

jacoboforlando, you are correct

I showed this video to a few Jews from Russia. They laughed more than me.

[uafanatik]

You are clearly very stupid. First of all, NO, the dude is not right in which you are agreeing with and second, a bunch of jews? They laugh at it for different reasons. Kinda like the stupidity and ignorance that we as Americans put into this video to inaccurately make fun of others and steer people to believe that is what Soviet Russia was like during that time.

[b5kalad]

Sounds to me like you have a problem. Life for the average person (like alone if you were Jewish) was very hard. Basic house hold items were sometimes hard to come by.

[jacoboforlando]

You are proof that some people, no matter how nicely something is worded, inevitably get offended at the nothing. You are too PC; I said nothing offensive. And you said nothing new or informative about the Soviet Union to me.

Of course I wasnt there in the 1980s.....no American was.

[uafanatik]

That did not reflect the Soviets at all. Have you ever been there in the 80's??? Or today? That is very ignorant to say. They had a lot of freedom--especially in what to wear in this case, since the video pokes fun of it.

[marie4thtimemom]

I lived there in the 80's. Sorry, uafanatik, this video is absolutely accurate. Painfully so. And no; there was NO freedom - including in the '80's. Few in the West realized how well-oiled the propaganda machine was.

[MsBirdie91]

Actually there was little choice in what you could wear, all the clothing that was manufactured looked pretty much the same, unless you had money and could afford to buy clothes from abroad.

[sergeontheloose]

@jacoboforlando

That was a funny commercial but it never reflected anything accurately. The obese women is the property of US of A. The military uniforms is also not true.

The "Korobeiniki" song was played by specially design folk song festivals, not fashion shows.

What else is accurate?

Oh, right the commercial of a fucking junk food that my dog will refuse to eat.

[lollipopfop]

@sergeontheloose Actually this is VERY accurate. And absolutely no Russian person will ever dislike this commercial. There was nothing available to the average Russian but ugly grey clothing, and bad food. If there was a fashion show staged in the Soviet Union an ugly, fat daughter of a Party member would probably be the model, unless it was staged to snow the West. But I see already many Russian people have told you this. Life was terrible in the Soviet Union.

[sergeontheloose]

@lollipopfop

LoL, "bad food"? You are talking out of your ass. That food had more good things in it than the current junk shit that doesn't meet any kind of medical standards. The milk was actually milk, the butter was actually butter, the meat was meat. You get my point? The current shit for food that we eat hardly resembles any kind of food.

You sound like some kind of jerkoff butthurt immigrant...welll shit happens. You make your bed and sleep in it to.

[jacoboforlando]

i remember that ad. LOL And the people squawking about it for PC reasons made it even funnier. LOL.

[tanyahooper012345]

You all need to relax.... it is not a making fun of russian women, but the system that give minimal choice... I married a beautiful Ukraine girl who grew up during the 1970-80's and she knows what it was like to have minimal fashion available.

[km2711]

Oh brother! Do some people have to super chill out..

Defending "communism" because the commercial--which is obviously a paraody and not to be taken seriously--pokes fun at a stereotype.

For God;s sake--you morons on the left--TAKE A POWDER and wake up on Nov. 5th!

[easternslavic]

I laughed.

[CATinWI]

I think most of us "got" that this commercial was not a real reflection of Russian women. That was where the humor was.

I was in college when this commercial was popular, and we all loved it. I still don't eat at Wendy's BTW. And most other Russian women I saw were in beauty contests and 6' tall, and gorgeous. Was that representative of all of Russia too? No.

It is just a silly commercial, which Wendy's(where's the beef) were famous for at the time.

[jgirl76]

It is propaganda. I grew up in the 80's and as a child I believed that Communists only had 1 pair of clothes to wear or all were required to dress alike, just like in this "harmless commercial" Now that I'm "AWL growned up" I can see through the BS... Oh.. The Rocky movie was also propaganda. For those who have the eyes and ears to see, you'll see the propaganda all around you, everyday. Our FREE and PRIVATE media spread government propaganda. But of course, our media is not state run.... HAH!

[yountary]

You are right.

[poitrenaud]

And, I agree that this is just a commercial and it is funny. It is good to have a light side.

We all know that beautiful women are everywhere-Italy, Russia, everywhere. But, I am French, and we have gorgeous women, and not so gorgeous.

But I travel to Belarus often; we have French business there.

The truth is, there are beautiful women who really DO only have one pair of shoes, and maybe a pair of boots.

It is poor, Stalinist and very depressing; but the people are very kind.

Cute Commercial

[jacoboforlando]

Even though this commercial was accurate for its time, there was never a time when Russian women were less than attractive. They still are among the best, in my opinion. But if they don't have decent clothes or things to help them compete with western women, they look worse. To me, Russian women are really good looking all things being equal.

[jgirl76]

People in America only think they are free, but they are in a prison they cannot see. We are also so foolish as to believe that it is only the "OTHER" side that distributes propaganda. This commercial is severe propaganda. It is laughable.

[vulc1]

this is humour, not propaganda! sure it has its roots in ethnic stereotyping but by increasing it up to absurd level makes you understand the irony.

[thatbamadude]

HAH!

[FinnishKnife]

Good grief...I think and hope that by now the stereotype idea of what Russian women are like has changed!And if people would just watch films made in the Soviet Union, they would see that fashions were basically the same as in the rest of Europe during those times...

[alex134219]

but he is right the whole soviets are backwards was not corect they did wear the same stuff and anyone who put a minus is just stuck in the 70s or 80s frome all the US propaganda racists

[adambomb6672]

Right, because the Soviet Union didnt make up any propaganda about the United States (or the rest of the world for that matter)...You need to relax. There is a reason that there was a revolution in the 80's 90's in the Soviet Union.

[joejoeirish]

ah. the soviets were and are backward. get real.

[peabody1976]

Remember the context: this commercial is from the *early* 1980's; The US still had a distrust of the Soviets, and anything Soviet was viewed in the lens of "uniform", "bleak", "unappealing", etc... This fit into the (erroneous) stereotypes of Russians (and other now-former Soviet peoples), especially Soviet women. Notice the female announcer is played by a *male* actor. It seems backward and offensive by today's standards, but remember the context in which it was created.

It's still funny!

[joejoeirish]

no they didn't. they were communist.

[vulc1]

do you really think that the commercial aims at accurate portrayal of russians?

[poitrenaud]

No; but it's good to make fun of stereotypes, because some of it is true.

I am French, and everyone makes fun of us.

And often we deserve it. And those of us that can laugh, when it is not projected to be hurtful are noble enough to respect it.

[dgreen002]

Win.