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That’s some good clean fun right there!
This is a 100% Russian production, and yet it looks and feels way more American than anything the pozzed U.S. entertainment industry would give us today: white, heterosexual, celebrating beauty, full of humor and wit and joy.
Interesting, I never would have guessed it was a Russian production!
Here’s a video on how they made it:
https://youtu.be/FtMql6ajPEQ
A lot of those ladies look “Russian,” though I would not have caught that if I hadn’t read the comments before. It’s sad that eastern Europeans are going a better job of acting like Americans.
I mean, for my own mental health, seeing the lady on the flight deck with the sub-daisy dukes on could have been skipped, but otherwise that was a fun little video. And I’m not a big fan of musicals.