Creepy!? Does not have to be creepy.
This is proper, capitalist food advertising at its finest:
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Should this even really be termed an “advertisement”? Isn’t it more of a PSA?
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Yes, after reading Wikipedia’s entry on Kruschev’s efforts to get corn established as a major Soviet food source that’s exactly what it looks like.
“Corn! It’s beneficial, comrade!”
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So he isn’t seperating his mirrors?
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I didn’t know David Lynch’s early career was advertising for the Soviets.
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I dunno, seemed a bit corny.
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Have you heard about the Hungarian Orange (a magyar narancs)?
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I thought it was amaizing
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Nope, I’d never heard of it. Really funny though!
“I suppose you were expecting me to mention corn…Well I will! You have not planted enough corn! Mmm…corn.”
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It’s also interesting to note that these sort of failures are somehow framed as indicative of flaws in communism/central planning, whereas similar failures in the capitalist world get pitched as individual errors rather than representative of underlying failings or weaknesses.
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