Monday, July 14, 2008

Gorbachev the Destroyer Slays Zombie Stalins in Russian Music Video [WTF?]




According to my friend Scott this is "the best explanation of the perestroika policies that ended the Cold War" he's ever seen. It certainly has more cleavage than I remember from my Social Studies textbook, not to mention an army of zombified Stalins and an axe-wielding, eye-beam shooting, gun-toting, Conan-esque Mikhail Gorbachev coming to the rescue of Mother Russia. This wild video comes from the Russian metal group ANJ, and features some killer use of old Soviety propaganda. I also appreciate their appropriation of the classic Battleship Potemkin film poster, which I myself have also used:














[via I Heart Chaos]

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