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[dreamer_easy]

... come to think of it, were there Russian propaganda films about The Bomb? Surely there must've been.

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[dark-pheonix.livejournal.com]

>.<

You've gone and got the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 theme stuck in my head.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I've had *(&$(&%) Eminem stuck in mine for two days. ARGH

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Wait until you hear the "Bumblebee Tuna Song" by Mephiskapheles. That will be stuck in your head for *months*!

[dameruth.livejournal.com]

Dunno about films, but I know there were some Eastern European propaganda campaigns similar to (and about as obviously useless as) the "duck and cover" routines in the US. I used to work with an older gal who was originally from Poland, back in the Cold War days. She once said that when she was growing up, in the event to a nuclear attack citizens were told to lie down and cover themselves with a newspaper. (Theoretically to block alpha particles, I suppose, though they'd be the least of one's worries if one was anywhere close to ground zero.)

As my co-worker dryly put it, "We used to say they were leaving out a step. It should be, 'Lie down, cover yourself with a newspaper -- and start crawling towards the cemetery to save some time.'"

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

... the equivalent of the Western advice to put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye.

omg:

"Get a shovel and a sheet and walk slowly to the nearest cemetery."

"... why slowly?"

"You mustn't start a panic."

[dameruth.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, seems the same gallows-humor existed on both sides of the Iron Curtain . . . :D