Russia’s Central Election Commission presented late Friday the ad spots to be broadcasted by all TV channels to prompt the nation to attend elections to the State Duma.
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The Election Movie
Russia’s Central Election Commission presented late Friday the ad spots to be broadcasted by all TV channels. In an effort to prompt the nation to attend elections, the election masterminds staked on the glorious past of the Soviet time.
The Central Election Commission will show the spots in time of pre-election campaign to the State Duma, i.e. November 3 through November 30. During the Friday presentation, the election chiefs stunned media both by quantity of footage and by their creative preference.
The slogans chosen by the Central Election Commission to lure potential voters range from the style of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russia’s famous poet of the first third of the previous century, to weather conditions. One of the so-called climate spots urges the Russians to go to vote, the cold weather notwithstanding.
To be more precise, the Mayakovsky imitation was the idea of Moscow Election Commission, while the central authority chose educational informative and propaganda spots. The first type reminds to the Russians that elections are slated for December 2 and the voting time is from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The propaganda spots are much more interesting. In them, voices of Russia’s popular actors (Gosha Kutsenko, Maria Shukshina, Fedor Bondarchuk) address the nation against the background of Moscow Kremlin or a gold field of wheat or jets, rockets and other symbols of invincibility of Russia’s Armed Forces.
Another group is based on the Soviet films. In one of the spots, Soviet super-spy in Nazi Germany, Shtirlets from Seventeen Moments of Spring (17 Mgnoveniy Vesny) is shown sleeping in a car, when a voice informs off-screen that he will wake up in 20 minutes “to go to elections of the State Duma members.” The probable message is that the spy has peacefully slept for nearly 70 years and nothing but the need to attend 2007 elections to Russia’s parliament has been vital enough to raise him.
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All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 15, 2007
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