# Russian Pepsi Commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 3, 2002, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-pepsi-commercial/101569 "2002-04-03T12:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZomZom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zomzom/32/5620_2.png) [@ZomZom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZomZom)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-pepsi-commercial/101569/1 "2002-04-03T12:36:39Z")
I’ve seen this on the net and have got to wonder whether it’s real. It’s very graphic yet seems professionally done, so I can’t tell whether it’s real or not. Anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![Photog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@Photog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Photog)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-pepsi-commercial/101569/2 "2002-04-03T13:49:23Z")
Got a link? Or even just a few more details? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-pepsi-commercial/101569/3 "2002-04-03T14:08:59Z")
Are you talking about the one from 1996, or is there a new one? [http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/9607/features.html](http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/9607/features.html) > [@](#): > > Mirwatch: June/July 1996 > > Joseph Stalin must be spinning in his grave like the pulsar inside the Crab Nebula. Yuri and Yuri filmed a Pepsi commercial on the space station Mir. Hey, the Russian space program needs the cash. > > The two Yuris - Onufrienko and Usachev - assembled a four-foot-tall aluminum and nylon replica of Pepsi’s new blue can and unfurled a banner that said, “Even in space . . . Pepsi is changing the script.” Video of the can and banner were shot both inside and outside Mir station. > > The soft drink company is rumored to have forked over more than $1 million for the plug, which will be used in a television commercial next year. But considering that Pepsi spends $300 million a year on advertizing it’s a drop in the bucket. 'Zat it? Advertising in space–cool list. [http://www.panix.com/~kingdon/space/advert.html](http://www.panix.com/~kingdon/space/advert.html) ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-pepsi-commercial/101569/4 "2002-04-03T14:40:04Z")
Japanese drink “Pocari Sweat” (yeah that’s its name in English - and they’re trying to market it as “sweat” to English speakers!!) filmed their ad in space. I believe it was supposed to be the first ever, so it might have beaten Pepsi into the stratosphere. Pocari Sweat isn’t fizzy, contains no artificials, and tastes vaguely like weak grapefruit juice. Amazingly it’s about their second biggest selling drink (after green tea?) ---
**Author:** ![ZomZom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zomzom/32/5620_2.png) [@ZomZom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZomZom)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-pepsi-commercial/101569/5 "2002-04-03T14:55:09Z")
I don’t want to provide a link because the video is pornographic. A Limewire search should produce the video. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-pepsi-commercial/101569/6 "2002-04-03T20:01:44Z")
So, you’re saying that there’s a supposedly pornographic Russian Pepsi commercial out there, and we can search for it on Limewire and download it if we have Gnutella, and we can watch it, and then we can discuss whether it’s an authentic Pepsi commercial? What even makes you think it’s authentic, in the first place? Like, why would Pepsi even make a pornographic commercial, let alone one in Russian? And, since all Russian TV stations are now owned by the government, why would they allow pornographic commercials to run? [http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/22/russia.tvstation/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/22/russia.tvstation/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-pepsi-commercial/101569/7 "2002-04-03T21:49:18Z")
An Israeli milk company also did a commercial in outer space. Guinness World Records, Ltd. says they were the first to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-pepsi-commercial/101569/8 "2002-04-04T05:14:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\* > What even makes you think it’s authentic, in the first place? Like, why would Pepsi even make a pornographic commercial, let alone one in Russian? > \*\* Well DDG Pepsi has been in Russia for a while even before the wall came down in fact. Has a really cool can with Pepsi in english on one side and the phonetic spelling in cryllic on the other. They were (at the time I was there 1999) losing money from Coca Cola products because pepsi had been around so long it was no longer considered American or cool any longer. So russian Pepsi ads I can see. Of course in 99 while I was there Pornography was highly frowned upon Nothing like italy (where I was in 97) where nudity was more accepted. I just cant invision Russians being so much more open to such a concept as a TV ad. Sure they had hookers in every hotel but TV was pretty mild. Hope someone else can shed some light on this. Osip ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-pepsi-commercial/101569/9 "2002-04-04T05:36:28Z")
as far as the story i know of it is its banned … it never aired Somthing to do with the guy waslking up to the girl and asking her for one and having sex with the girl if she dosent have pepsi ect …