There was TV advertising across the whole Soviet Bloc - both for domestic products, and, more shockingly for imports from the capitalist West - Schwarzkopf were huge, Nivea was available. There are masses of the se on Youtube - search for 'reklama' and you get Polish, Czechoslovak, etc.
I live in a total bubble. I realise I know nothing about the Soviet Union. The basis of my knowledge is the same as any other ill-informed westerner's list of stereotypes.
The GDR did have a fledgling advertising industry, until it was banned/closed down in the mid-1970s (presumably as adverts tended to encourage people to want to buy things that unfortunately weren't in the shops). The home-shopping catalogues suffered the same fate at the same time. There are DVDs of the adverts ("ínformation about products") available - and didn't you see that 'exhibition' in your local shopping centre too?
On the same theme, I recommend the 1976 DEFA comedy "Nelken in Aspik", starring Armin Müller-Stahl shortly before getting his Berufsverbot for signing the Biermann supporters' list, a while before leaving for Hollywood, and sometime after playing a Stasi version of James Bond for GDR television. Occasionally in the cinema. See http://www.satt.org/film/02_12_nelken_1.html and http://www.satt.org/grafiken2/nelke-g.jpg
The film went into the 'Giftschrank' shortly after its release due to the lead being not being able to work anymore, and the 'socialist advertising industry' it had as its subject of satire being almost dead and buried around the time the film came out.
Well, our host has started again. Although I understand your who-knowsness. Blogging's an awful pain. I'm a bit anti it myself at the mo, though mostly because there was something I wanted to blog and can't remember it. I've now made another note to myself to make notes to self.
I've got terrified recently that a family member is reading. No way of verifying, of course, though it might explain my lack of enthusiasm of late. And you're back too!
Looking at those stats again? Many pageviews from Willesden could mean something. Or perhaps it's just someone sitting in the Swiss Cottage using a laptop? I know mine's being read, as I've had bits of it copied out and commented on by email. Time for a new identity and blog-address?
Yikes, scary! Mind you, blogger's doing such a good job of not working of late that I might not have to bother worrying anyway. Haven't you got a couple of spare blogging identities that you could make good use of?
You mean that you two don't already have multiple blogging identities? It's all the rage - I am currently also a Uruguayan film reviewer and a Sri Lankan mother of three cum faith healer. Or am I? Do you really write such inflamatory entries? My family came and went (having found my blog 'about the most tedious thing on the earth').
What was that someone said about using other people's blog's comment's boxe's a's an alternative to bothering to po'st on your own blog? (All tho's'e "'" make's it all look a bit Dutch.)
I'd probably swap to Wordpress, I doubt if it's as unreliable as Blogger.
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Sharm! Shaaaaaarm! SHAAAAAAARM! Magnificent. But where would this ad have been shown? I didn't think they had TV advertising in the old SU.
There was TV advertising across the whole Soviet Bloc - both for domestic products, and, more shockingly for imports from the capitalist West - Schwarzkopf were huge, Nivea was available. There are masses of the se on Youtube - search for 'reklama' and you get Polish, Czechoslovak, etc.
I live in a total bubble. I realise I know nothing about the Soviet Union. The basis of my knowledge is the same as any other ill-informed westerner's list of stereotypes.
The GDR did have a fledgling advertising industry, until it was banned/closed down in the mid-1970s (presumably as adverts tended to encourage people to want to buy things that unfortunately weren't in the shops). The home-shopping catalogues suffered the same fate at the same time. There are DVDs of the adverts ("ínformation about products") available - and didn't you see that 'exhibition' in your local shopping centre too?
Daggi, I did see it, though only cursorily, but I loved lots of the packaging, of course.
On the same theme, I recommend the 1976 DEFA comedy "Nelken in Aspik", starring Armin Müller-Stahl shortly before getting his Berufsverbot for signing the Biermann supporters' list, a while before leaving for Hollywood, and sometime after playing a Stasi version of James Bond for GDR television. Occasionally in the cinema. See http://www.satt.org/film/02_12_nelken_1.html and http://www.satt.org/grafiken2/nelke-g.jpg
The film went into the 'Giftschrank' shortly after its release due to the lead being not being able to work anymore, and the 'socialist advertising industry' it had as its subject of satire being almost dead and buried around the time the film came out.
Daggi, you are a one-woman fount of cultural knowledge. I've been googling like mad to understand all the references. (Biermann - 10 children!)
Which all begs the question, when are you going to blog again? (The same may also be asked of our host.)
Who knows...
Well, our host has started again. Although I understand your who-knowsness. Blogging's an awful pain. I'm a bit anti it myself at the mo, though mostly because there was something I wanted to blog and can't remember it. I've now made another note to myself to make notes to self.
I could start writing a diary instead, and then I'd be pretty sure that members of my family aren't reading it. Not while at work, anyway.
I've got terrified recently that a family member is reading. No way of verifying, of course, though it might explain my lack of enthusiasm of late. And you're back too!
Looking at those stats again? Many pageviews from Willesden could mean something. Or perhaps it's just someone sitting in the Swiss Cottage using a laptop? I know mine's being read, as I've had bits of it copied out and commented on by email. Time for a new identity and blog-address?
Yikes, scary! Mind you, blogger's doing such a good job of not working of late that I might not have to bother worrying anyway. Haven't you got a couple of spare blogging identities that you could make good use of?
You mean that you two don't already have multiple blogging identities? It's all the rage - I am currently also a Uruguayan film reviewer and a Sri Lankan mother of three cum faith healer. Or am I? Do you really write such inflamatory entries? My family came and went (having found my blog 'about the most tedious thing on the earth').
Do you mean you encouraged them to read? I'd cringe at the thought of my relatives reading.
What was that someone said about using other people's blog's comment's boxe's a's an alternative to bothering to po'st on your own blog? (All tho's'e "'" make's it all look a bit Dutch.)
I'd probably swap to Wordpress, I doubt if it's as unreliable as Blogger.
Daggi, I want to swap too, but am too scared to take the plunge.
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