Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial
Mikhail Gorbachev with his granddaughter Anastasia Virganskaya in the commercial | |
| Agency | BBDO |
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| Client | Pizza Hut |
| Language | Russian with subtitles in English language |
| Running time | 1:00 or 0:30 |
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| Release date(s) | January 1, 1998 |
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| Written by | Tom Darbyshire |
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Presidency Foreign policy |
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was featured in a 1998 television advertisement for Pizza Hut. It was filmed in November 1997 on Red Square and in a Pizza Hut restaurant elsewhere in Moscow. It was aired internationally in January 1998, but not in Russia.
In the commercial, a family inside the Pizza Hut restaurant discusses Gorbachev's political legacy. The younger man and the older man disagree, until the older lady says that Gorbachev gave them Pizza Hut. Gorbachev used the money he earned to finance projects by his foundation. The commercial has been described as illustrative of the victory of capitalism inside the former Soviet Union.