If somebody had told you in 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, than in 22 years, the Soviet Union would be defunct, and the new general secretary would be hawking luxury luggage in the West, wouldn't you have thought that person was on drugs?
Wouldn't you have?
Well, lo and behold, the new Louis Vuitton ad campaign:
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The Overwhelming Triumph of Capitalism
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How to Bag the Soviet Union in Style
Erin: I've even heard the Wendy's commercial (Night Wear was a hoot!)attributed as a factor in bringing down the Soviet Union.
Death by Mockery. At least no one gets killed.
Heck, we should try it against Islam, but no one dares speak a word.
"Heck, we should try it against Islam, but no one dares speak a word."
Yeah, right. There's a few megabytes of daring in this forum alone.
Russians, like Americans, are a proud people and don't take to having their noses rubbed in it, which stuff like this does. We shouldn't wonder why Putin is popular; he put an end to their humiliation. So let Vuitton and the high plutocrats cackle; perhaps someday America will be on hard times and they'll parade around one of our ex-statesmen to give their Chinese market some yuks.
I heard a couple of years ago that Khruschev's son is teaching at some East Coast college. I thought that was a shame--he should have started a funeral home, in fulfillment of his father's prediction that "we will bury you."
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