Sky Europe a Russian Imperialist?
Good news for RuSSian Nazis and imperialists. Sky Europe (the largest Central European low-cost airline) and “Novy Smichov” (one of the largest shopping malls in Czech Republic) are vouching their full support for Russian imperialism. Here’s the proof of endorsment:
The “new” map of Europe was spotted at the information kiosk at the main entrance of the shopping mall “Novy Smichov” which is visited by tens of thousands of people daily:
The exact same map is also available from their website at novysmichovoc.cz, on a page announcing a promotional contest to win free airplane tickets on Sky Europe airlines.
Happy RuSSian imperialists can direct their thank you letters to Sky Europe using their contact e-mails.
May 30th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
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May 31st, 2006 at 6:28 am
The image is hosted on te novy smichov site… also the skyeurope one IS correct… the correct contact email addresses would be
http://www.novysmichovoc.cz/?page=contact&lang=en
May 31st, 2006 at 9:24 am
Hey! It’s not like that. It means Belarus has taken over Russia and even moved Moscow to somewhere around Lida, namely “Kolhoz Moskovskoy Komsomolec”. Do not worry. All Russians are gone. You just have moved Moscow ;-)
May 31st, 2006 at 9:31 am
Даслаў ім пару лістоў с заўвагами… Пабачым …
May 31st, 2006 at 10:15 am
}T{Reme [Q_G]: Maybe you are right, it makes sense to write “thank you” letters to Novy Smichov, though I’d like to note that the map is a part of the Sky Europe promotion (free air tickets), so there’s no doubt that Sky Europe is the boss of this project.
May 31st, 2006 at 6:12 pm
I thought only bottom class, uneducated Americans are so geographically challenged.
June 1st, 2006 at 6:05 am
True, this promotion is done by sky europe, but atleast their maps are correct. Sky Europe doesnt own that terminal tho, nor do they own Novy Smichov’s site. Have to say, their site is badly broken if you go only to .cz/ instead of .cz/page=index or something. I’m not surprised if the same idiot who made the site also made the image. In any case, I’ve sent an email to all people on that contact page and got zero replies. I would call them if I could but I dont have access to a phone on the hours they work.
June 1st, 2006 at 6:15 am
Their website is highly broken on other pages too.. the link to the english feedback form is broken, this is the correct link:
http://www.novysmichovoc.cz/?page=buss_write_us&lang=en
and czech version:
http://www.novysmichovoc.cz/?page=buss_write_us
June 1st, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Nyah, this time you overreacted.
June 1st, 2006 at 10:49 pm
hal9001, in what regard?
June 2nd, 2006 at 6:20 am
I must admit I didn’t get it at first, until I had another look at the map. Well, Minsk is perhaps becoming Moscow’s “okno v Evropu” in Kremlin dreams. Possibly, Putin is thinking of moving to Minsk instead of having to bear Moscow’s traffic congestion. That would at least be at a convenient distance from his Kaliningrad summer-house.
Finally, I come to think of an old anecdote from the times when Europe was divided between East and West and hot the model of “international exhange” worked in those days. Thus, a French group is going to Moscow and a Russian to Paris. Both groups by chance end up in Warzaw. The Russians believe they are in Paris and the French that they are in Moscow.
Well, this could perhaps serve as a hypothetical explanation. The airline company simply thinks that nobody will know the difference, and is now doing a great profit by charging full prices and leaving people halfway. Thus, everyone would think that Minsk was Moscow.
June 2nd, 2006 at 6:37 pm
“Okno v Evropu”… dont that translate to “home in europe”? Sorry my russian is really poor.
I really have only two explanations for the creation of this bad joke
1. A graphic designer who’s geographically challenged made it, and got approved by an equally geopgraphically board of directors.
2. A graphic designer who thought it would be “ok” to move moscow to minsk to account for space-constraints of the final image. Same board of directors approved it.
Side note… I wrote about 10 emails now… not a single reply… Guess they dont understand english or they just ignore me. Anyone know Czech?
June 3rd, 2006 at 1:25 pm
[…] P.S. By the way, Moscow has been moved to a more proper place on that funny Sky Europe map, but Belarus border is still not drawn. So our country is still missing. :) […]
June 7th, 2006 at 2:56 am
Oh dear, so a mistake by a Czech company has to be happily interpreted by Russians…can I just add that I really do not care about this and simply laugh at the mistake… good joke… and shame on you for racism and russophobia.
June 19th, 2006 at 3:01 am
Sounds pretty pathetic. How russophobic does one have to be to interprete a stupid mistake (even if deliberate) by some western flight company to russian imperialism? Do you see Evil Russia hiding behind every tree on the street, just waiting to jump on you? Then I guess you should go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIlKiRPSNGA
Anyway, I am from Switzerland and don’t know so much about Belarus. I notice a lot of media in the west is reporting very one-sided about this country. Therefore I have some questions:
Would Milinkevich as a president remove protectionism of the Belarus economy (which in my opinion would lead to its demise?).
Do you think an ethnic Pole could be elected by a majority of ethnic balarussians?
Something that is bothering me: Why is Saakashvili in Georgia regarded as a democrat by the west (oficially he was elected with 98% of all the votes, which is so ridiculous, it isn’t even funny anymore) and Lukashenko with 82% of the votes is regarded as a dictator?
Are there alternatives to Milinkevich?
And last question: What is your problem with Russia, I mean they are really not pressing towards a unification (all talks have been postponed a million times, even Lukashenko says it will never happen). Also gas prices for are to rise, so there is no threat anymore that Russia wants something as an exchange.
Anyway, I think a direct democracy as in Switzerland would fit nicely to Belarus, paired with very slow opening of the economy. I have the impression that Milinkevich is being hailed in the west as the only saviour whereas there is no explanation why they think so. Just because he is the only one against Lukashenko? Did he lose the voting just because Lukashenko rigged the elections, or did he really lose? Nobody knows, but for the western media it’s clear. I fear he is just another western puppet like Jushtshenko and Saakashvili. The population should decide what is best and not the media, not the white house and not George Soros.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 am
Thanks for sharing
February 7th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
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March 24th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:09 pm
This sky colour is very very worst but how this sky is very longer.
April 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
These are all nice country disigning picture this is a good picture.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
The czechs just looked into the future and unveiled the map as it will be 20-30 years from now. Well, except Moscow will stay where it is, we’ll hope
August 11th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
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