Recently, the creative intelligentsia of the Russian capital was shocked by the massive crowd of townsfolk and youth (schoolchildren and students) seeking to enter to the exhibition of the artist, known primarily by one picture – “Girl with peaches”.
It seems that many hours standing in the cold and strong wind was caused not by the eruption of love for the work of this artist and not even free cereal that field kitchen prepared near the queue to the gallery.
Most likely, mass pandemonium was the result of the real flash mob and massive advertising and media attacks in the Newspapers, Internet editions, social networks and television.
I will add that all of this action involving squishing, and smashing glasses, very much resembled the queue for the deficit in the Soviet era. Then there were also huge queues for vodka, tobacco products (the”Belomor” and cheap cigarettes), instant coffee, sugar and many other food products.
Generally speaking, all this agiotage was, probably, the real development of methods of psychological influence on electorate.
Next time people may also flee EN masse to the polls to vote for whoever will promise them “the peaches”…
