Good News Stories

[FightTheFuture]

I LOVE  this kind of stuff, so I thought it deserved it`s own thread


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2zUf06iy1A#t=34

[Kelt]

It's the reality TV version of the Soviets awarding a medal and an apartment to the most productive worker as a means of making every other poor sap think they too might  have a chance of getting out of the horror that is their everyday lives... but of course they don't.

I'm not necessarily being critical of this kind of thing. In fact there's surely scope for other aspects of Soviet society to be turned into cheap reality circuses for the masses... like, for instance, 'Inform of Your Neighbour And Win Fabulous Prizes', where someone is picked at random and all their friends and relatives and neighbours testify that Joe Schmoe should be sent to a labour camp in Siberia for 25 years. Bruce Forsythe could host, and the person who makes the most incriminating charges against the victim has the opportunity to win Chinese-made merchandise in the Conveyor Belt Game.

I'd personally be excited to watch, 'Drink Yourself To Death on Black Market Jet Fuel To Escape Your Miserable Life', where Howie Mandel encourages ten homeless people to be first to kill themselves for the cameras. The losers are trucked to a Polish Forest and executed with no cameras present. The Winner... okay, well he gets thrown in on top of the losers and they're all buried for 50 years. Then they can be dug up for the pleasure of some future reality show...  Was Your Grandfather Murdered by Howie Mandel, for example.

...I'd have to work on the premise for that show, but regardless... there would be prizes.

[Pragmier]

 

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

It's the reality TV version of the Soviets awarding a medal and an apartment to the most productive worker as a means of making every other poor sap think they too might  have a chance of getting out of the horror that is their everyday lives... but of course they don't.

I'm not necessarily being critical of this kind of thing. In fact there's surely scope for other aspects of Soviet society to be turned into cheap reality circuses for the masses... like, for instance, 'Inform of Your Neighbour And Win Fabulous Prizes', where someone is picked at random and all their friends and relatives and neighbours testify that Joe Schmoe should be sent to a labour camp in Siberia for 25 years. Bruce Forsythe could host, and the person who makes the most incriminating charges against the victim has the opportunity to win Chinese-made merchandise in the Conveyor Belt Game.

I'd personally be excited to watch, 'Drink Yourself To Death on Black Market Jet Fuel To Escape Your Miserable Life', where Howie Mandel encourages ten homeless people to be first to kill themselves for the cameras. The losers are trucked to a Polish Forest and executed with no cameras present. The Winner... okay, well he gets thrown in on top of the losers and they're all buried for 50 years. Then they can be dug up for the pleasure of some future reality show...  Was Your Grandfather Murdered by Howie Mandel, for example.

...I'd have to work on the premise for that show, but regardless... there would be prizes.

For good old fashioned Soviet television fun, it's hard to beat CCP1 shows, "What Fits into Russia" and "Uposcrabblenyk."

What Fits Into Russia


WHEEL of FORTUNE - the SOVIET version

[Kelt]

Let's not forget traditional Soviet Song of Joy Through Labour.

http://youtu.be/2Z4m4lnjxkY