Some people in Russia are very angry about Papa John's 'Josef Stalin' pizza discount - Polidicks

[QUOTE][B]People in Russia were not happy this week to find out that the words "Josef Stalin" can get you a discount at Papa John's pizza.[/B] Ilya Klishin, editor-in-chief at independent TV channel [I]Rain[/I], was one of the first to notice that entering the former dictator's name while ordering from the Papa John's website would save customers money over the weekend: Papa John's Pizza has introduced a Josef Stalin promotion code. Enter the dictator's name and get a Hawaiian or pepperoni pizza," he wrote on Facebook, adding that his family members, like millions of others, had been oppressed and sent to their deaths by the Soviet leader: Kilshin's discovery caused quite a stir online, with many people taking to social media to say they found the tie-in tasteless: [URL="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PapaJohns?src=hash"]#PapaJohns[/URL] launches Stalin promo code, because nothing makes people hungry for pizza like a man who starved millions [URL="https://t.co/NNzacwZd4I"]pic.twitter.com/NNzacwZd4I[/URL] — Novorossiya PR (@Novorossiya_PR) [URL="https://twitter.com/Novorossiya_PR/status/688540715027009536"]January 17, 2016[/URL] Um, OK. You can use a "Joseph Stalin" promo code on the Russian Papa Johns website. Image via Zhenia Berkovich. 😒 [URL="https://t.co/at5YdJZGrx"]pic.twitter.com/at5YdJZGrx[/URL] — Natalia Antonova (@NataliaAntonova) [URL="https://twitter.com/NataliaAntonova/status/688333804075921408"]January 16, 2016[/URL] [URL="https://twitter.com/NataliaAntonova"]@NataliaAntonova[/URL] utter madness — danvesma (@danvesma) [URL="https://twitter.com/danvesma/status/688337674810318849"]January 16, 2016[/URL] Papa John's has since clarified that the offer was part of a promotional tie-in with the computer game [I]World of Tanks[/I] - Stalin lent his name to a series of Soviet tanks produced in the 1940s which are featured in the game, along with several others. The Kentucky-based pizza chain later [URL="https://www.facebook.com/papajohnsru/posts/1166421236701652?hc_location=ufi"]apologised[/URL] for using the promotional code and for any "unintentional" offence caused, adding that the firm tries to stay "apolitical". Source: [url]http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/some-people-in-russia-are-very-angry-about-papa-johns-josef-stalin-pizza-discount--WyVv7TYKhx[/url] [/QUOTE]

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The guy they show in the article with the shirt and necklace looks fly as fuck.

Well you know what they say, if your Russian for food there's no time for Stalin

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49592729]is'nt this the same company that made a hissy fit about giving good benefits ( like the good benefits was men't to become law and there where really acting childish about I just not sure what it was ) to there employees that the employees them self feeled not respected ( they really sad that ) [b]so[/B] anyways back to topic not sure what to say about this[/QUOTE] why have your posts become progressively less intelligible

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;49592762]why have your posts become progressively less intelligible[/QUOTE] [I]self feeled not respected ( they really sad that )[/I] < - That part is my favorite.

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;49592762]why have your posts become progressively less intelligible[/QUOTE] A shitty keyboard is what he told me

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49592729]is'nt this the same company that made a hissy fit about giving good benefits ( like the good benefits was men't to become law and there where really acting childish about I just not sure what it was ) to there employees that the employees them self feeled not respected ( they really sad that ) [b]so[/B] anyways back to topic not sure what to say about this[/QUOTE] :tried:

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49592729]is'nt this the same company that made a hissy fit about giving good benefits ( like the good benefits was men't to become law and there where really acting childish about I just not sure what it was ) to there employees that the employees them self feeled not respected ( they really sad that ) [b]so[/B] anyways back to topic not sure what to say about this[/QUOTE] I'm sorry. I try not to be a grammar Nazi, I let a lot of things slide such as its vs it's here. But what the fuck is 'men't' supposed to be?

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49592729]is'nt this the same company that made a hissy fit about giving good benefits ( like the good benefits was men't to become law and there where really acting childish about I just not sure what it was ) to there employees that the employees them self feeled not respected ( they really sad that ) [b]so[/B] anyways back to topic not sure what to say about this[/QUOTE] russia has a weird relationship with papa johns and other western pizza chains

[QUOTE=Sableye;49592895]russia has a weird relationship with papa johns and other western pizza chains[/QUOTE] Never forget [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7x8ypMZilg[/media]

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;49592825]I'm sorry. I try not to be a grammar Nazi, I let a lot of things slide such as its vs it's here. But what the fuck is 'men't' supposed to be?[/QUOTE] I think it's "meant" in a rural Utah type accent.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49592974]Never forget [/QUOTE] idk i like the giant flying pizza hut billboards better [t]http://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleWidth/815/offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OMC/rocket-1280-20130730042200617.jpg[/t] i get why putin put a stop to that

Papa Bless

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49592974]Never forget [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7x8ypMZilg[/media][/QUOTE] "Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS PIZZA!"

[B]People in Russia were not happy this week to find out that the words "Josef Stalin" can get you a discount at Papa John's pizza.[/B] [People in Russia were not happy] Literally couldn't give zero fucks any harder. In fact, discount on pizza is very good. It's probably some ass-backwards marginal vocal minority trying to create yet another shitstorm. Fuck 'em, I say.

Or y'know, it's a clickbait article headline.

One bad pizza is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49592729]is'nt this the same company that made a hissy fit about giving good benefits ( like the good benefits was men't to become law and there where really acting childish about I just not sure what it was ) to there employees that the employees them self feeled not respected ( they really sad that ) [b]so[/B] anyways back to topic not sure what to say about this[/QUOTE] Are you uh. Are you ok? Guys i think he just had a stroke.

He died over 63 years ago, get over it you cry babies.

[QUOTE=Blind Lulu;49595786]It's supposed to be "me not" duh.[/QUOTE] like the good benefits was [I]me not[/I] to become law and there where really acting childish about I just not sure what it was 10/10 improve on grammar structure right there.

Well, the outrage is understandable, considering that Josef Stalin was pretty much the Russian equivalent of Adolf Hitler.

The Adolf Hitler discount: all you have to do is say ''Hitler did nothing wrong'' for a sweet 10% discount!

I thought Russians liked Stalin. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Russia_(Russia_TV)[/url] Stalin was ranked #3 in a poll of "greatest russians"

That is must be really few few people.... oh wait, the [B]RAIN[/B] tv chanel, then only people who'd knew about or make a big mess out of it... you guessed it, [I] progressive russian liberals[/I] (in other words, nobody) Does "Hail Satan" gives you free dilivery?

[QUOTE=proboardslol;49598900]I thought Russians liked Stalin. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Russia_(Russia_TV)[/url] Stalin was ranked #3 in a poll of "greatest russians"[/QUOTE] That poll was complete bollocks. There was so much artificial inflation of numbers that it was obvious. The company responsible for it first let Stalin's numbers get inflated, lost control of it, panicked and started inflating Alexander Nevsky, which resulted in him jumping from the third place to the first one in three days with some wildly massive numbers. It was a clustefuck. But apart from that, yeah, Stalin is pretty popular. Huge part of it is that media just can't shut the fuck up about the guy and put the case to rest already. There's not a lot of things that spark controversy and polarize opinions better than good old uncle Joe, so media agencies abuse the theme for ratings.

[QUOTE=proboardslol;49598900]I thought Russians liked Stalin. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Russia_(Russia_TV)[/url] Stalin was ranked #3 in a poll of "greatest russians"[/QUOTE] How can Stalin be the #3 greatest Russian when he wasn't even Russian?

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;49599722]How can Stalin be the #3 greatest Russian when he wasn't even Russian?[/QUOTE] I wonder if this site has any other lists, maybe Napoleon is their greatest Frenchman, and Christopher Columbus their best Spaniard.

[QUOTE=karimatrix;49598914]Does "Hail Satan" gives you free dilivery?[/QUOTE] maybe not, but that'd be sweet. pentagram cut pizza.

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;49599722]How can Stalin be the #3 greatest Russian when he wasn't even Russian?[/QUOTE] To quote Lenin [quote]I also fear that Comrade Dzerzhinsky, who went to the Caucasus to investigate the "crime" of those "nationalist-socialists", distinguished himself there by his truly Russian frame of mind ([b]it is common knowledge that people of other nationalities who have become Russified over-do this Russian frame of mind[/b]) and that the impartiality of his whole commission was typified well enough by Orgonikidze's "manhandling". I think that no provocation or even insult can justify such Russian manhandling and that Comrade Dzerzhinsky was inexcusably guilty in adopting a light-hearted attitude towards it.[/quote] [url]https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/autonomy.htm[/url] In 1922 Stalin and and another guy (Orgonikidze) pretty much annexed Georgia in such a way as to exemplify Russian chauvinism and abuse a national minority, and Dzerzhinsky (a pole) was sent to investigate and later agreed with them. This made Lenin flip about Russian chauvinism, the typical russian bureaucrat, how the national secession policy was just a piece of paper protecting the non-russians from russians, and how the Soviet state was 'inherited' and not theirs. Lenin would discover towards the end of his life how Stalin wasn't so against any of this. That's pretty much how a Georgian becomes a Russian.