USSR Soviet Union Vintage Commercials | Ads in 4K (Pt 1)

A collection of advertisements from the USSR/Soviet Union from the 70s/80s.
Unlike advertisements in the western world, these were all commissioned and oversaw by the Soviet Union government. Many of the products featured never made it into the hands of the average citizen and were kept by party officials.
Know the translation? Please comment below!
00:00 - Intro
00:07 - Commercial #1
00:55 - Commercial #2
01:37 - Commercial #3
03:38 - Commercial #4
04:40 - Commercial #5
07:11 - Commercial #6
09:08 - Commercial #7
10:32 - Commercial #8
11:31 - Commercial #9
13:35 - Commercial #10
These have been upscaled to 4k using Video2x.
#SovietUnion #USSR #OldCommercials

[@campagnollo]

"Buy our product because the other product.......um, there is no other product."

[@sten260]

all of these are ads from american/european companies that were allowed to start selling their stuff in Russia right before the collapse of USSR. USSR didn't have any companies operating in the country so there was no need for ads at all, that's why you can't find any on youtube from like Stalin era

[@Georgina-lv9bt]

@@sten260 alot of these are a few decades before the perestoika though.

[@John_.Cabell_.Breckinridge]

​@@Georgina-lv9bt Pepsi was allowed to operate in the USSR in the 60s so that would explain the first one

[@kenwood2682]

I don't understand why Soviet allowed American overpriced consumerism to poison Soviet minds! This is what happens when you don't mix socialism with capitalism, you produce zero

[@kennethb375]

There is no way you can't tell me that was Borat in the swimming pool playing the keyboard! I seriously thought he was spliced in as a joke

[@andrewk2250]

2:27 😂

[@thebiggerbyte5991]

Very nice!

[@juancarloslatorre2429]

Y el teclado debió haber sido una copia de algún Yamaha de Korea del Norte.... jajaja...

[@heha9752]

Just learned something: For those wondering, the Pepsi ad actually comes from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿, a former Soviet republic! Cool to see that and the Estonian 🇪🇪 Pinguin Ice Cream!

[@bend3rbot]

And the icecream ad is from Estonia. I'm not sure everyone realises just how many different cultures were co-opted into Soviet union.

[@TheAle82]

Pinguin Ice Cream directed by Harry Egypt

[@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler]

Ahhh... that explains the more Turkic pronunciations.

[@meralEdwtDawlatly]

​@@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler they don't speak Turkic ....they use Turkish language now and then very little

[@stenliikane5753]

Estonia was actually the first, who established official commercial production company in the USSR. Other USSR commercials were like shit compared with the estonian ones. Also commercials presented products, which were actually fake- some products were simply non existant

[@user-vd6js2oj7u]

5:25 song Goodbye by Mary Hopkins (written by Paul McCartney)

[@PaginasLetea]

That first Pepsi commercial was long as fuck, they did a whole music number. Also the stop-motion one was disturbing and enthralling at the same time, I didn't get what was advertising though. They were all pretty good. Nice glimpse into the culture.

[@Nikes62]

It's a Pepsi rip off, PepsiCo would have never done business in communist USSR.

[@heha9752]

Totally agree! Stop motion one was a PSA about using insecticides against pests.

[@bend3rbot]

It's not as though advertising time was expensive. Most during the era was allocated to various trades and industries to promote their prowess, or workers happiness, or the virtues of chicken, or corn, or candles, whatever they produced.

[@sreyasdesai4865]

Soviet Russian Russo Pakistani Mughal Indo Indian Asian Asiatic

[@bjohnson1489]

Old soviet tv commercials are more entertaining than anything Hollywood has made lately

[@Brandon-lw1wx]

Well Hollywood has become the ideology of the former Soviet Union…just like the Democratic Party,

[@avenueb]

false, Commie

[@R.A.Mapachee]

Woooooooow 🙄

[@lesleyhaan116]

Then I don’t think you know what good entertainment is if you think that commercials are better than bic blockbuster movies 😂😂😂

[@mattving61]

Let me guess you’re leaving the states if…. Insert here

[@777Eliyahu]

should could go for a Pepsi, looks like it just makes life completely wild

[@maxheight22]

5:45 okay no one else has brought this up so I will: what on earth is with that girl eating ice cream, she looks possessed!

[@Portal-to-Nostalgia-2000e]

*1-Я РЕКЛАМА:* 0:10 И время их было безоблачно, и приятны были им радости. 0:18 Твоим рассказам нет числа, Шахрезада. Дивлюсь я памяти твоей, и бодрости, и свежему дыханью. Как будто тысячи ночей не провела ты в страхе наказанья. Поведай, где источник твой? 0:35 О, восхитительный тиран, здесь тайны нет. Напиток тот, что силы мне дарил, перед тобой. Отведай, царь! 0:58 Прекрасный вкус. Скажу я без прикрас: гора, его хлебнув - и та пошла бы в пляс! 3:19 *кибрайский комбинат прохладительных напитков* (Узбекистан) *2-Я РЕКЛАМА (примерно начало 1990-х):* 3:28 Дышит зноем песок, воздух сух, ветер нем. Что спасёт от жары, где оазис? (МОВЕН!) 3:40 Ваш помощник идеальный - вентилятор осевой. Ну а также радиальный, крышный или пылевой. 3:47 Обещаем климат райский в вашем цехе круглый год. Обращайтесь на МОсковский ВЕНтиляторный завод! 3:55 На МОВЕН, на МОВЕН, удивительный МОВЕН! Вентиляторы МОВЕНа - вот решение проблем. 4:07 Обеспечим полный сервис и откроем филиал. Контактируйте с МОВЕНом - выбирайте капитал! 4:15 Господа, по всем вопросам ежедневно, круглый год обращайтесь на Московский вентиляторный завод! *3-Я РЕКЛАМА (актёр - Михаил Боярский):* 5:20 Вы мечтаете красиво и современно обставить квартиру? 5:25 В магазинах, торгующих мебелью по образцам, вы наверняка найдёте то, что соответствует вашему вкусу. 5:43 *Главное Управление торговли Ленгорисполкома. Управление промторгами. Магазин № 9 ленмебельторга. Продажа мебели по образцам.* *5-Я РЕКЛАМА:* 6:40 Продемонстрировать своё кулинарное искусство вам поможет электрическая сковорода, оснащённая терморегулятором. *6-Я РЕКЛАМА:* 7:24 В дороге и дома идеальную чистоту бритья гарантируют электробритвы с товарным знаком Эхо. 7:35 Харьков-61. В этой модели бреющие ножи плавающей конструкции. 7:44 Харьков-109. Здесь оригинальная новинка - подвижный нож роторного типа. 7:54 Эти электробритвы подтверждают высокую репутацию товарного знака эхо. *7-Я РЕКЛАМА (актёр - Михаил Светин):* 8:09 Хлоп! Дуплетом две утки в озере! Варька за одной поплыла, я за другой. А часы на берегу остались. Новенькая кварцевая «Чайка». Ну, плыву, как полагается, с уткой обратно. Гляжу - ворона за часы, и хода. 8:26 - Вороны, они такие. - Ну а дальше-то что? 8:31 А дальше - через год я попал в те же места. 9:00 Смотрю - мои часы (ага). Год прошёл - а им хоть бы что. (- Да ну, не верю) До сих пор не подводили! 9:16 Вы скажете - охотничья фантазия. Но кварцевые часы «Чайка» действительно работают в течение года на одной миниатюрной батарейке. И это достоверный факт. *8-Я РЕКЛАМА:* 10:05 Стеклянные пуговицы. Важный декоративный элемент в женской одежде. 10:20 Широкий ассортимент стеклянных пуговиц производит зеленоградский завод. *9-Я РЕКЛАМА:* 10:40 По этим хлопкам нетрудно догадаться - в доме появилась моль. Но теперь мы хорошо вооружены и не идём на врага с голыми руками. 10:52 Препарат Супрозоль - новое эффективное средство против моли. *10-Я РЕКЛАМА:* 11:22 Мы жуки, мы жу-жуки! Мы пришли как чужаки! Наведём порядок здесь… 11:30 Мы главные, косматые, как тигры полосатые, прожорливые очень, всё изгрызём, источим. 11:40 Мы червячки, мы червячки, мы очень любим яблочки. Мы тихо в яблочках сидим и всё едим, едим, едим. 11:52 - Не любят нас садоводы. Вредителями обзывают. - Ну и пусть обзывают, лишь бы жить не мешали. 12:00 Они бы конечно и рады помешать, ха-ха-ха, да не знают, как. Зато мы знаем. Ох, знаем! 12:12 Трифос! Изофен! Тиазон! Полихом! Вот что для нас чистая погибель! 12:22 Остаётся надеяться, что садоводы и огородники так и не воспользуются этим коварным изобретением. Иначе наша песенка спета! 12:42 *лучшая форма защиты растений - нападение на их вредителей!* 12:48 *по заказу в/о (всесоюзного объединения) Союзхимзащита ВНИИХСЗР*

[@goodiesguy]

That ice cream advert appeared in the Borat closing credits.

[@TF2Scout..]

As an Estonian it was funny to see that in Borat

[@JL-sm6cg]

I'm afraid to know what was in the Soviet version of OFF. In Russia bug spray get you!

[@chiimumango3979]

wasn't 5:45 in Borat during the National Anthem video?

[@SMGJohn]

First two ads are not from the 80s but rather post-Soviet era.

[@RubenPerez-qz6vk]

Gracias por la información

[@hasanpulat672]

В советское время уже была Пепси-кола.

[@thedolphin5428]

Hey, it's Borat at 2:30.

[@kenwood2682]

Of course Hollywood loves stealing ideas and claiming it as theirs 🤡

[@jrnumex9286]

"your attebtion please ,thank you. day vear.....

[@marisarello]

Beautiful Soviet Union girls! ❤

[@klicka83]

They are now grandmas

[@marisarello]

@@klicka83 ye

[@Illisil]

Need captions/ translations

[@liebh001]

Conventional wisdom: "Communist countries didn't have a lot of drug use." Video at 11:24: "Um, about that....."

[@willmarsden7657]

This is indeed a disturbing universe.

[@garhartt]

What is ad #4 for?

[@xerozxl]

FUCK, the last ad was very creepy

[@austelevators]

It’s an ad for pesticides I think. The text at the end translates to “The best form of plant protection is attacking their pests”

[@AckzaTV]

Star Trek Voyager

[@meralEdwtDawlatly]

Much better than the fucking soviet crap nowadays !!!!

[@John_.Cabell_.Breckinridge]

There is no Soviet stuff today, the USSR is long gone

[@indrekkalbus735]

Does anyone have any background information about the ad on 10:25?

[@timfilmstudio6437]

Text: "These claps let us know, that there are moths in house. But now we are armed, and dont attack the enemies with bare hands. Zuprosol is a new effective moth repellent"

[@cdt4487]

haha estonia

[@torpmorp1324]

The ice cream commercial is not Russian but Estonian

[@cdt4487]

@@torpmorp1324 my bad

[@Alexey19781]

5:45

[@stagna1959]

5:46 It was actually one of the first private companies allowed to do business in Estonia, produced icecream and various fast food. Company was founded in 1987 by Switzerland businessman Alexander Kofkin, who emigrated from Soviet Union many years earlier. Commercial got lot of heat because critics considered it "too sexy", but it worked. There were long lines in front of Penguin ice cream places, even though ice cream was very expensive by Soviet era standards . But it had lot of flavors and all bright green, yellow, blue and red colors were so fascinating even for adults, not to mention for kids.Of course it had lot of food dyes in it, but noone cared. It was like icecream they ate in West, first time we got some flashy modern Western food instead of Soviet crap.

[@juancarloslatorre2429]

Jajaja sin importar el lado político....siempre les meterán gaseosas a los jóvenes...."futuros diabéticos"...😡😡😡😡😡🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

[@Greydl1]

B

[@vvredina]

6:02 гадость и мерзость

[@SyndicateSuperman]

That Soviet furniture commercial was more sterile than an alcohol bath. That furniture was ugly.

[@DartLuke]

Irony, the most popular furniture in the USSR, was furniture from East Europe

[@meralEdwtDawlatly]

4:29 This is a greek music mixed with Egyptian old film melodies Lol they stole it And about the apartment situation 😂😂 those Russians and Ukrainians still have the same mentality until this day 😂😂they never change