Talk:Generation "П"
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[edit] Original research
Much of the article appears to be original research. Trying to verify these claims would be extremely laborious, so I'm inclined to completely remove this material. This seems preferable to leaving huge amounts of questionable material on the page. Anyone who thought there was some value in would be free to reintroduce it along with suitable references. - Crosbiesmith 12:43, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] P for Pepsi
I removed the statement ' The "П" in the title stands for "Пепси", the rendering in Russian of "Pepsi" '. In the interview 'I never was a hero', Pelevin seems to contradict this. - Crosbiesmith 20:54, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Once upon a time in Russia there really was a carefree, youthful generation that smiled in joy at the summer, the sea and the sun, and chose Pepsi.
It's hard at this stage to figure out exactly how this situation came about. Most likely it involved more than just the remarkable taste of the drink in question. More than just the caffeine that keeps young kids demanding another dose, steering them securely out of childhood into the clear waters of the channel of cocaine. More, even, than a banal bribe: it would be nice to think that the Party bureaucrat who took the crucial decision to sign the contract simply fell in love with this dark, fizzy liquid with every fibre of a soul no longer sustained by faith in communism.
The most likely reason, though, is that the ideologists of the USSR believed there could only be one truth. So in fact Generation T' had no choice in the matter and children of the Soviet seventies chose Pepsi in precisely the same way as their parents chose Brezhnev.
No matter which way it was, as these children lounged on the seashore in the summer, gazing endlessly at a cloudless blue horizon, they drank warm Pepsi-Cola decanted into glass bottles in the city of Novorossiisk and dreamed that some day the distant forbidden world on the far side of the sea would be part of their own lives.
Babylen Tatarsky was by default a member of Generation 'P', although it was a long time before he had any inkling of the fact. If in those distant years someone had told him that when he grew up he would be a copywriter, he'd probably have dropped his bottle of Pepsi-Cola on the hot gravel of the pioneer-camp beach in his astonishment. In those distant years children were expected to direct their aspirations towards a gleaming fireman's helmet or a doctor's white coat. Even that peaceful word 'designer' seemed a dubious neologism only likely to be tolerated until the next serious worsening in the international situation.
So begins the story. Some guys put it online, so you can easily google to find the whole text. ellol 07:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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