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Awesomely Bad Corporate Video: 'Let's Drink to the Russian Gas'

It may not qualify for Iron Eagles, our collection of the awesomely bad videos of the military-industrial complex. But Gazprom, Russia’s state-run gas monopoly, certainly has enough Bond-villain cache to qualify for some kind of prize. Take the company’s schlocky theme song. Danger Room reader Rob was kind enough to forward the link to a […]

It may not qualify for Iron Eagles, our collection of the awesomely bad videos of the military-industrial complex. But Gazprom, Russia's state-run gas monopoly, certainly has enough Bond-villain cache to qualify for some kind of prize.

Take the company's schlocky theme song. Danger Room reader Rob was kind enough to forward the link to a – video of the corporate anthem, and it's ... well, just awful.

The lyrics (shown in subtitle) are pukeworthy as well. A sample of the chorus:

Let's drink to you, let's drink to us,
Let's drink to all the Russian gas
That it never comes to an end,
Though it's so hard to obtain
Let's drink to you, let's drink to us
Let's drink to all the Russian gas
For those extracting the new sun
From down beneath the ground

Ouch. Russia has discovered in recent years that energy exports can be a more potent weapon in foreign policy than its military. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, former Czech President Vaclav Havel said Europeans need to man up and stop trembling before Gazprom: “It is necessary to say politely and with a friendly smile that we are free and we will do what we want,” he said. “We will not be manipulated or blackmailed, and if you threaten that you will not deliver gas to us, well then, keep it.”

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