Anybody but me remember this old Coca-Cola commercial?

[Aristus]

I couldn't find it on YouTube, but I remember it caused quite a stir back in the early 1980's. It showed a bunch of Russians partying and dancing around with bottles of Coke, pouring it down each others' throats, laughing, squat-kick dancing and generally enjoying the hell out of themselves while the voice-over does its pitch for Coke. It ends by saying: "Some people will go pretty far for the refreshing, delicious taste of Coca-Cola..." Just then the door to the hovel housing the party slams open, revealing two sinister KGB agents in the doorway. "...but sometimes, not far enough!"

I seem to remember there was something of an international outcry over the commercial. Soviet authorities expressed anger at the portrayal of Communist oppression in such a way. The ad was removed from the airwaves not long after.

Anybody else remember this?

Anyone have a YouTube video of it?

[Doc_Technical]

1. I don't remember that commercial but...

I remember another commercial which took place in a dimly lit dingy warehouse
and a fashion show was taking place and every model was a large slavic women
and all the models wore the same sack dress and the spotlights were handheld
flashlights.

I think it was for Wendy's.

Anyway, the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pack countries complained and it was
withdrawn.

[Aristus]

2. Yeah, I definitely remember that one.

It was a parade of different styles. The host (dressed in an elaborate Soviet Army uniform) would announce:

"Beach vear!" And the dumpy model in the sack dress would walk the catwalk holding a beach ball.

"Evenink vear!" And the model walks out in the same old dress and carrying a flashlight.

Funny. And who were the Soviets to get offended? Couldn't they just not have had such a squalid social system?

[Richard Steele]

3. Yes, I remember that one.

I wasn't aware that it had gotten yanked due to the
Soviets complaining, though. Interesting stuff.

[NoPasaran]

4. In Soviet Russia, Coke drinks you!