{"id":1506,"date":"2003-09-28T18:36:50","date_gmt":"2003-09-28T22:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/28\/russian-posters-depict-rape-of-dollar\/"},"modified":"2003-09-28T18:36:50","modified_gmt":"2003-09-28T22:36:50","slug":"russian-posters-depict-rape-of-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/28\/russian-posters-depict-rape-of-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Posters Depict Rape of Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1286'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"349\" height=\"326\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/eurofuck.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"308\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"10\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"164\">\n<p>\n        <em>My God, is nothing sacred? Iconic Russian pornography espousing Eurosupremacy!<br \/>\nThe US as Eurobitch!     The Russian text reportedly reads &quot;They all look the same in the dark!&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Advertising authorities in Moscow have banned a poster campaign showing<br \/>\n        the euro having sex with the US dollar. \n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"244\" colspan=\"3\">\n<p>The campaign, by the Russian Finance magazine,<br \/>\n        was judged immoral by the Moscow Committee for advertising and information,<br \/>\n        reports Izvestia. Advertising company News Outdoor had to tear<br \/>\n        down 100 posters overnight in Moscow, after receiving a warning letter<br \/>\n        from the committee chairman Igor Presnyakov. <\/p>\n<p>  Magazine publisher Igor Maltsev said he did not realise what the posters were<br \/>\n  supposed to represent. <\/p>\n<p>&quot; I thought the currencies were dancing on our poster,&quot; he said. <br \/>\n&quot; But after hearing from Mr Presnyakov I saw that, yes, maybe, this is a<br \/>\nlove scene.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><em>LOVE SCENE, Igor? Taking it from behind from a swarthy blue-blood<br \/>\n          Euro is a love scene? Where I come from its enough to turn any true-blue<br \/>\n          Ameriucan green. This is not a romantic scene,<br \/>\n        in my humble opinion, and would probably have required an American military<br \/>\n          response had the posters not been torn down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_822534.html?menu=news.weirdworld.badtaste\">from<br \/>\n    Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My God, is nothing sacred? Iconic Russian pornography espousing Eurosupremacy! The US as Eurobitch! The Russian text reportedly reads &quot;They all look the same in the dark!&quot; Advertising authorities in Moscow have banned a poster campaign showing the euro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/28\/russian-posters-depict-rape-of-dollar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}