Ukraine offended by Dutch Euro 2012 ad

Published time: April 25, 2012 13:30
Edited time: April 26, 2012 13:17
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A commercial, which warned Dutch women against letting their husbands and boyfriends travel to Ukraine for Euro 2012, has outraged the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

­The ‘Keep him home’ ad began airing on national television in the Netherlands in anticipation of this summer’s European football championships.

The video suggests it’s “dangerous” for Dutch men to go to Ukraine as there are too many beautiful ladies in the country.

"We find this commercial discriminating, fuelling ethnic hatred and unfair to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people,”
Aleksandr Dikusarov, Ukraine’s Foreing Ministry spokesman, is quoted by Vesti.ru as saying. “We’ll be vigorously pushing for such an ad to be removed from television.”

According to the official, “the Ukrainian Ambassador to the Netherlands has already met with representatives of the local football federation, who are sponsored by the company responsible for releasing the commercial.”

Dikusarov stressed that the Royal Dutch Football Association “strongly condemned” the ad and assured the Ambassador that they weren’t aware of its production. 

The Ukrainian women are renowned for their looks, with a recent survey from Traveller’s Digest calling the female residents of the capital Kiev the most beautiful on the planet.

The Netherlands were drawn in, the so-called ‘Group of Death’, at Euro 2012. They’ll hold their games against the strong teams Germany, Portugal and Denmark in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

Comments (9)

ukraine-vacation-guide.com (unregistered) 04.12.2012 11:19

Ukrainian food is one of reasons to visit this country. Meals in Ukraine http://ukraine-vacat ion-guide.com/index/ meals_in_ukraine/0-1 07  are both tasty and beautiful.  There are  numerous restaurants and bars where you can try local meals. Most of them are not very complicated so you will be able  to try to cook them at home. Welcome to Ukraine and enjoy delicious local food!

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BTown 27.04.2012 11:47

New World Order: Cry me a freaking river. Are you kidding me? So, if Europeans consider Ukrainian women to be beautiful, that makes Europeans racist? What a joke! The funny thing is, when I visited Ukraine, EVERY single Ukrainian person I met asked me, "So, don't you think Ukraine has the most beautiful women in the world?" Every single person said this! So, evidently Ukrainians also think they have beautiful women, but if Europeans think this, it means that they are racist? You sound like a male chauvinist pig, worrying about the "honour" of Slavic women. This "honour" you speak of probably means working at home, cooking all your meals, and only marrying other Slavic men, right?

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westpreuße 26.04.2012 09:22

Hello!
It is dangerous for every man to come to Europe. OUR women behave like and are dressed like, uhm let's say professionals, if you know what I mean.
This is because they have been indoctrinated that they should think and act like men because men are supposedly better off in society. To be a mother and raise your kids or cook them a nice dinner is considered by them patriarchical supression. To emphasize their last bastion of femininity which has not been declared a supression by evil patriarchs and to actually fill the spiritual void their manly behaviour creates they obscenely overemphasize their bodily beauties and change their sexual partners every five months or so.
Of course if they get pregnant that's the worst case scenario for them. They will either abort the child, declaring it a parasite in their body, or they will give birth to it, care for it for a month and then put it into a childcare center and go back to work. The entire sallary they earn is then spent to pay for the childcare because that's worth it. Because they feel so incredibly free when they go to work everyday sitting on their behinds and doing pointless paperwork. Because they are doing it for themselves. Since they are the most important to themselves. The kids? Whatever man! Let the professionals take care of them. After all they are paid for it, so they will most certainly have only the best in mind for other persons' children.

I'm sorry, I digress. Don't come to Europe. It's dangerous for men to come to Europe. Stay where you are if you wanna live a sane life.

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