NTBA (Not that band again) + Aeroflot advertising

[Alina Israeli]

That's how myths are created. Putin said something not understanding  
that it was not the real thing but mockery, and then everyone repeats  
after him.

Рассказывая международному  
сообществу об отвратительных особах  
из группы Pussу Riot, президент Российской  
Федерации Владимир Владимирович Путин  
особо упомянулакцию группы "Война" в  
"Ашане" в 2008 году - по его словам, одна из  
участниц группы повесила в людном  
месте три чучела с призывом освободить  
Москву от евреев, гастарбайтеров и  
гомосексуалистов.

Не буду сейчас полемизировать с  
Владимиром Владимировичем  
относительно перформанса группы  
"Война" и его интерпретации. Владимир  
Владимирович вряд ли посещает "Ашан" и  
интересуется подобными событиями, а то  
бы он знал, что "повешены" были вовсе не  
чучела и группа своей акцией по сути  
пыталась обратить внимание граждан на  
их, мягко говоря, неровное отношение к  
отдельным категориям населения. Но  
даже если предположить, что Владимир  
Владимирович прав, что Толоконникова  
действительно такая гомофобка,  
антисемитка и ксенофобка, - что ж он так  
печалится-то, Владимир Владимирович?

http://grani.ru/opinion/portnikov/m.206110.html


On the old Aeroflot slogan: it was very funny because the slogan in  
fact was Летайте самолетами "Аэрофлота", as  
if we had a choice between Aeroflot and PanAm.

Alina

On Sep 20, 2012, at 9:10 AM, John Dunn wrote:

> I return with some trepidation to the Pussy Riot issue, but there  
> has been a development that I find rather curious.  Yesterday's  
> edition of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica published a letter  
> from the Press Attaché of the Russian Embassy in Rome, in which he  
> claimed that the group had become notorious for slogans calling for  
> Moscow to be liberated from Jews, foreign workers and homosexuals.   
> The newspaper responded rather sharply that it had no evidence of  
> their ever using any such slogans, but what intrigues me is whether  
> this argument has become part of the standard repertoire of the  
> Russian government or whether it is merely a piece of private  
> enterprise by an over-enthusiastic diplomat with a well-developed  
> sense of what might go down badly with a bien pensant centre-left  
> readership.
>
> To change the subject, the same edition of the same newspaper  
> published an advertisement for Aeroflot, which depicted a smug young  
> couple in evening clothes in a setting that combined elements of an  
> aircraft cabin and a theatre in a rather surreal manner.  The slogan  
> was (in English): The Sky.  Our Masterpiece.
> I dare say that there are some who would take issue with that claim,  
> but it strikes me that as a slogan it is a distinct improvement on  
> the disturbingly ambiguous 'Aeroflot flies you direct to the  
> sea' (1979), while falling some way short of the unbeatable stroke  
> of creative genius that was Летайте самолётом  
> [Letajte samoletom] (Rostov, 1970).
>
> John Dunn.
>
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu





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