Golaya Pravda
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Golaya Pravda was a television program hosted by Svetlana Pesotskaya
on Moscow
's M1 TV.
After Communism
, Russian television channels struggled to gain viewers because of low budgets and lack of programming. To attract viewers, the M1 Network began experimenting in November 1999 with having Pesotskaya strip while delivering the news. Soon the ratings soared and the show became the most widely viewed news program in Russia. Pesotskaya took off her clothes on camera daily with a pair of hands, strategically placed
as the only thing to preserve her decency. Golaya Pravda also featured a weather presenter/ecdysiast
and other reporters who bared their breasts completely.
Besides the titillation value, the dissonance
of watching a woman undress and hearing serious news appealed to the Russians' sense of the absurd developed living under Communism.
Svetlana Pesotskaya
Svetlana Pesotskaya is a television reporter in Moscow who gained international attention for her practice of stripping during newscasts. Before becoming a television journalist, Pesotskaya was an actress and model....
on Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
's M1 TV.
After Communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
, Russian television channels struggled to gain viewers because of low budgets and lack of programming. To attract viewers, the M1 Network began experimenting in November 1999 with having Pesotskaya strip while delivering the news. Soon the ratings soared and the show became the most widely viewed news program in Russia. Pesotskaya took off her clothes on camera daily with a pair of hands, strategically placed
Handbra
A handbra is a photographic pose in which a female model's nipples and areolae are covered with her own hands or with someone else's...
as the only thing to preserve her decency. Golaya Pravda also featured a weather presenter/ecdysiast
Striptease
A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner...
and other reporters who bared their breasts completely.
Besides the titillation value, the dissonance
Dissonance
Dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict or incongruity:*Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord*Cognitive dissonance is a state of mental conflict...
of watching a woman undress and hearing serious news appealed to the Russians' sense of the absurd developed living under Communism.