Guardian called the Nazi complex advertising Sochi

According to British journalists, poster designers of St. Petersburg is in the aesthetics of Nazi posters 30s.





Billboards depicting complex advertising "Gorki Gorod", which is under construction in Krasnaya Polyana attracted the attention of journalists from the Guardian. According to the newspaper, blue-eyed, blond athlete shown on the poster looks like an Aryan, whose image was circulated in the art of propaganda in time of the Third Reich.

Journalists from the Guardian as comparing billboard with images from the film director Leni Riefenstahl, who, in turn, removes the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. She took off the famous painting titled "The Triumph of the Will." The documentary describes the annual convention of the National Socialist Party of Germany in Nuremberg in 1934.

It is noteworthy that the advertising poster for "Slides" created by designers from St. Petersburg project Doping-pong, who use the swastika in their advertising banners. The representative of the agency Dmitry Mishenin denies that used images of posters of the Olympic Games held in Berlin in 1936, noting their special aesthetics.

Creative director of the project "Gorki Gorod" Dmitry Leszczynski, in turn, said that the criticism of the Guardian is nothing more than an attempt to discredit the construction of the complex.



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