The Russian national holiday of Feb. 23, the Defender of the Fatherland Day, used to be for congratulating men partaking in military service. However, the occasion has recently turned into a kind of ‘men's day’ (as opposed to Woman's Day on March 8). There are lots of jokes to suggest that if a woman is stingy
The most popular joke says that women only give their men socks and shaving gel, the cheapest and most affordable things for housewives. In return, women expect lots of flowers, jewelry
The Russian Digital Network System (DNS), which sells house appliances and electronics, has made an advert mocking this stereotype.
In this viral clip, a man brings his wife into a forest and makes her dig, as though it were a 1990s criminal movie and she
After a
The girl then wakes up, and we realize that this was the nightmare of a girl who had just bought socks as a present. It is at this moment that the advertising message pops up, with the DNS store comes to the woman’s rescue. Wisely, she goes inside and buys “a present for a man, with no risk to life.”
The video went viral on the Russian internet, though many users admitted that it was slightly sexist. The company's SEO Dmitry Alexeyev has since apologized to those who may have been offended, stating that the video was an initiative of a regional department, and high management had not been made aware of their plans.
How do you like that? 10 Soviet advertising posters that will make you laugh and cry at the same time.
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