November 27, 2011

Censored political slogan: "Tired of vegetables? Vote for [APPLE]."

The Moscow Times reports:
The head of the Moscow metro ordered election ads for the opposition party Yabloko [Russian for "apple"] to be removed...

"I understand the resentment of Mr. Besedin who was offended by the fact that a category of organisms, to which he belongs, is featured as something people are fed up with," Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin said...

11 comments:

ndspinelli said...

I would vote for Mr/Ms Honeycrisp.

ndspinelli said...

Can I order apples via Amazon?

ricpic said...

They never get tired of liquid potatoes in Russia.

edutcher said...

Hmmm, sounds like somebody might be stepping on Vlad's toes.

They better hope he doesn't decide today's a great day to have apple sauce for dessert.

ampersand said...

They never get tired of liquid potatoes in Russia.

Or liquid dates.

DADvocate said...

A choice between vegetables and fruit, that's no better that the choice between Peters and Dix.

F said...

Sounds like in Russia the government censors the news. America has a much more efficient system: here the news censors itself. See "Yid wih Lid"

JAL said...
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JAL said...

Very punny.

No sense of humor, these Russians. Smirnoff needs to go home and get them laughing.

wv untan
Russians in the winter.

Titus said...

I would do Putin.

Heart_Collector said...

Titus said...
I would do Putin.



In soviet russia, Putin does you.

wv: sedistr... ha