Museum of Communism

Get personal with your favourite communist: Karl Marx, Lenin and Stalin. I love the idea of Stalin getting (and giving?) some. The ads are using sex and creepiness to lure visitors. Just like the internet and a whole bunch of cool and awful content out there.

I think is a fantastic print ad, perhaps a little disturbing but hey perhaps so is the subject. Great evocative art with some funny insight. Great photography and casting to, I just wonder where would one sources lookalike models for things like this And who in the world looks Like Lenin in this day and age anyway. Perhaps it’s a bit Madame Tussauds wax mannequins.

By the way Lenin is in a typical Russian steam room, called “Banya“. It’s like the sauna, plus you hit yourself with birch leaves.

• Agency: Young & Rubicam
• Creative Director: Daniel Ruzicka
• Creative team: YR team
• Photographer: Jaime Mandelbaum
• Retouch: Furia
• Makeup SFX: Brian Wade

Oh yes, just in case you were wondering about the museum itself but too busy to Google it here are some shots for you:

Photo: Hollin Elizabeth

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1. For shock value I give it an A+. Very clever concept. Thought provoking in that the thought of having sex with any of these despotic creeps makes one want to always make it “Sat. night only babe.”

   Pic 2, many girls would like to beat him with birch leaves to get rid of him. hehe. And lol what could be more arousing to a female than the sight of an ugly dude cutting his toenails. My libido has taken a nose dive after seeing these dudes. But as for the creator of the photos, a dark and mysterious frame of mind at work. Very memorable.

   Comment by perowlifick2 — 25 October, 2008 @ 2:55 am

2. I’d prefer cuddling up to vomit than these horrors of history. Any woman will gag if seeing these ads. I’d rather attend 3 autopsies – preferably – theirs.
   Jeana

   Comment by Jeana — 26 October, 2008 @ 12:47 am

3. The photos are extremely well executed albeit the topics. Does tend to lure one in to visit this museum. I trust I’ll find no toenail clippings underfoot if I do.
   Jack
   A bit of humor is almost always a good thing.

   Comment by Jack — 28 October, 2008 @ 2:41 am

4. Jeana are you serious. Do you know who these historical figures are? Of course they’re nauseating. Are you uneducated or what?
   Janet

   Comment by Janet — 28 October, 2008 @ 2:24 pm

5. Hi Janet,
   Chill. What are you the opinion police! I don’t recall seeing a “opinions must correlate with those expressed by Janet” sign on my way in to this blog. Good thing I’m secure or you might have hurt my feelings.
   Jeana

   Comment by Jeana — 28 October, 2008 @ 2:27 pm

6. Getting pretty heated here … I didn’t care for the pictures but going to the Museum of Communism would be very educational.

   Comment by emnatarte — 11 November, 2008 @ 5:55 am

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