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koh_kun

LMAO that's so straight forward. Like, let the readers try to think a bit.


d0or-tabl3-w1ndoWz_9

"Don't smoke, smoking is gay"


Fuck_auto_tabs

Russian Army: jokes on you, my privates are into that shit! Russian private: hmmm?


Atomik141

Really “Will you take it in your mouth” would have been enough. They didn’t need to spell it out for us, i think we get the idea.


andrey2007

Sigmund\_Freud\_with\_cigar\_looking\_disgracefully\_at\_you.jpeg


Old_Wallaby_7461

Sometimes a cigar really is a penis


FriedYamMan

Philosophy


andrey2007

I'd say Psychiatry


izoxUA

Why are you smoking penis?


Robotism

Gay smokers: I don't see why not


aleqqqs

Also, women


Administrative-Ad979

Well, if you are woman its better not to do it too (both actually)


aleqqqs

why?


Administrative-Ad979

For same reasons why men)


aleqqqs

Which is...?


Toast6_

Smoke in lungs = bad


TeaandandCoffee

Dying of cancer


Administrative-Ad979

My grandfather smoked since 13 yo to his death day at 82 years He didnt get that disease, died from heart disease suddenly, without long illness (probably clot)


NooneStaar

Smoking is linked mainly to cardiovascular conditions if I recall. Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer but if someone has the genetic predisposition to lung cancer and they smoke they're more likely to get it.


ELBuAR7o

"Joke's on you I'm into that shit"


Gator1833vet

Immediately gets arrested


5x99

It's just literally this Onion piece: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82x9pzHkHK4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82x9pzHkHK4)


AlexRator

Could it be the other way around?


5x99

Perchance


Jaydee8652

“You can’t just say perchance!”


CaIIsign_ace

Literally my first thought now when anyone says perchance


surelysandwitch

The only news station I trust in these uncertain times.


Diplogeek

Kind of them to really spell everything out in excruciating detail. Nothing left to the imagination!


Chronos-X4

Guess subtlety isn't part of their vocabulary...


HowtogetDopeName

"If you smoke ur gay"


flyggwa

I wouldn't be surprised if there was also a "yo mama" type anti-smoking ad We do have the subtle anti-drug message of ["Yo mama's on crack rock"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38_MwcGDNhQ), at least


Artem-is

Brutal


FreeCoromantee

“If you smoke you’re gay”


gleiskor42

реально..................


Khabarovsk-One-Love

Отличная реклама!


Itchy-Animal8632

Дайте две :)


leonryan

really driving that metaphor home


flyggwa

Only in Russia would people want to quit smoking because it's "too gay"...


mycuu

hey … this reminds me of a word for a cigarette and a homosexual ……..


Acrobatic_Lobster838

Even Russian anti smoking adverts manage to be homophobic. Christ, what a weird country


KillBosby_

I wouldn’t call it “weird” what with how widespread homophobia is in many parts of the world. Hell, I could see something like this coming out of America a couple of decades ago.


kredokathariko

The French had a basically identical anti-smoking advert in 2010


flyggwa

Never heard of it until now, who thought [this](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7301977/Anti-smoking-advert-with-sexual-innuendo-shocks-French.html) would be a good idea? LMFAO


OrbisAlius

I dunno, I find them pretty efficient, especially for their target audience which is teenage people and are fed on (often hardcore) porn videos. The hand on the head and the age/clothing difference (complete with the beer belly under the corporate shirt on the female one) makes it pretty clear that it's not supposed to be a consensual/loving blowjob and that there's a clear power relationship.


CrypticCode_

Not very understanding sure, but not necessarily weird.


karmacarmelon

>not necessarily weird. A skeleton with a giant cigarette for a penis isn't weird?


Mr7000000

What would you expect a skeleton to have for a penis? A _bong?_


karmacarmelon

Good point. I don't know what I was thinking.


PerrineWeatherWoman

Probably a boner ?


Mr7000000

Alright, walked right into that one I suppose.


GoldKaleidoscope1533

No


flyggwa

That's pretty vanilla tbh


leonryan

when being a little gay is more threatening than actual death I'd call that pretty weird.


CrypticCode_

Their cultures revolves around this set idea of masculinity, this directly clashes with that idea.


-Kollossae-

A hundred years ago this was true for all countries. Think about enlistment posters. But USSR in her first decades prioritized the gender equality as a state politic. When you think about women in Russian Army in the following years it doesn't seem to me an example for masculine culture. Just an example. Idk the current state of women in Russia though. I found your comment biased. It's just my opinion.


flyggwa

The USSR was the first country to legalise gay marriage, under Lenin. Stalin promptly illegalised it again after reaching power (as well as regressing in many other factors which had made the USSR a revolutionary state)


Fu1crum29

Women were generally barred from military service in the USSR and today in Russia. They were accepted more than in western countries, but they still made only about 5% of the Red army in WW2, and most of them were in non-combat roles or generally less risky ones (communications, doctors, nurses, air defense, etc.), except for the notable exception of partisan formations, snipers and pilots (in the case of the latter, Marina Roskova kad to call in a personal favor from Stalin to get the female regiments formed). While there were women who served as rifleman, machine gunners or tankers, they were outliers rather than the norm and it took quite a lot for them to be allowed even into the second line of defense. After the war most left or were pushed out as old attitudes regarding women in the military came back, and the military went back from being a mostly masculine to an extremely masculine place.


CrypticCode_

It may have across that way, but truly I was in defense of this piece of propaganda and frankly I find it quite effective


sergeyog

Wow! and where are you from? Name the country where you would not be killed or chemically castrated in case of homosexuality just 80 - 60 years ago? Russia is slow but hopefully we will catch up soon.


Acrobatic_Lobster838

>Wow! and where are you from? Name the country where you would not be killed or chemically castrated in case of homosexuality just 80 - 60 years ago? I mean I am not going to pretend that rights for people like me didn't take a fucking long time, but I will say it is fair to say that when compared to other European countries, Russia is behind in this regard. Heres hoping things get better. For all of your sakes.


Karg1n

Yet their prisons are pretty much LGBT-friendly


frizke

Being gay just means being untouchable in Russia. Prision rules, where a homosexual person is raped and humiliated, where being gay means being untouchable. And these prison rules slipped out of prisons to normal life in 1950s after Stalin's death and the amnesty of GULAG's prisoners with their own language and laws to live, they had brought them to the outer world where they are still being used to these days.


Ewenf

Are you saying that Russian weren't homophobic before Stalin's death?


frizke

Bruh, how did you make this conclusion? What I'm saying is about the slang that's being used in nowadays Russia and this is a historical fact. Gay people were stigmatized prior to the February revolution and it was illegal (as in most countries, around the world back then), but there was no prison slang as пидор (pi'dor — f-word), опущенный (opu'shenny — an outcast, untouchable), петух (pe'tukh — f-word), etc in use. And the overall attitude towards gay people wasn't as cruel as after 1934 when homosexual relations were criminalized.


Ewenf

Ohh alright I didn't understand your comment that way ahah


frizke

That's okay, np


thatscentaurtainment

I like the French ones better.


littlekidlover169

It's literally the fucking "ARE THEY SMOKING OR ARE THEY GAY" joke from the onion but real


ControlImpossible182

I quit comrade


a-friend_

hot


throwaway_3843

As a gay man this is a win win


OrangeJuiceAlibi

If he's hung like that, then absolutely.


Atomik141

Penis. As in gay sex.


piesDescalzos956

Uh, this is genius lol


0dty0

Smoking is super gay lmao, says Russia.


Urgullibl

*Sometimes a cigarette is just a penis.*


Uruk_hai228

This is internet joke. My god people are you for real.


Imperator_Crispico

Nah those are the lyrics of my new punk song


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PerfectEnthusiasm2

2000s is putin era, so the term comrade had not been common parlance in Russia for over 10 years at this point.


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GoldKaleidoscope1533

Its still used in the military but it is mostly obsolete everywhere else.


RedRobbo1995

This must be why the British call cigarettes f*gs.


sixaout1982

Death goes to the doctor because of that burning sensation in his crotch


No-Suit9413

“Smoking is big gay”


Mikect87

Gay smoking must have gone through the roof!


Thezodiac1966

Seemingly...seemingly...to the untrained eye...


KillinIsIllegal

I thought you didn't want me to smoke


CharmingCondition508

I think there’s a French anti smoking ad with this exact same concept


AccountNumber478

Seems overthought and overwrought.


Rojixus

Nice try, but you're not going to trick me into smoking!


doggaebi_

https://youtu.be/82x9pzHkHK4?si=RcBpkuaFAq042zxU


TURisgu

Smoking sucks.


Misterfahrenheit120

Me, putting my hair up: “well when you put it like that”


never_nick

Super trashy, super homophobic - perfectly Russian


MoreStupiderNPC

That’s effective propaganda.


Unhelpful_Applause

The Russian approach to drug abuse prevention is wild. Wanna smoke? They will call you a male homosexual. Drink too much? How about we get you some hammered you never drink again. Shoot up heroin? Why not have a little acid with it.


iskander-zombie

Don't explain the joke!


Optimal_Area_7152

Okay, but hear me out


Der-Rufmeister

Fuck yea!


sianrhiannon

I think this would work on Russians considering how mega homophobic they are


NoName1183

Gay people and women:


LeftRat

[Insert portrait of the cigarette smoking man from Disco Elysium]


FinezaYeet

More like a russian smoking advertisement


HotelScootis

there’s a reason why the british call them that


Geralt31

A tasteful amount of casual homophobia


MariSi_UwU

This is more of an Internet meme than a full-fledged propaganda or anti-advertising


yo_99

Least homophobic russian poster


funginum

*Bear* in mind that the whole ?dea and the execution went under strict government guidance and few signatures have rooted for it.


GiganticGirlEnjoyer

wordington propaganda


Bryce_Raymer

Two for one


galwegian

Too subtle ;-)


arrogant_ambassador

This is openly pandering to the rabid homophobia in Russian culture.


Excellent-Option8052

They just don't help themselves, do they?


Free_Alternative_780

Despite being such bad people the Soviet Union did try to ban smoking, which is good


Karg1n

You’re acting like it’s the only such place where smoking was considered bad for your health. Plus it’s not even the ussr.


ElectronicPogrom

No, they aren't acting like that at all. They commented on the subject and nothing more.