Why I'm not switching to command mode?

I want Ctrl+C to copy selected text to clipboard and switch to command
mode.
The line bellow populates clipboard but doesn't do the switching to
command mode. Why?

vnoremap <C-c> "+y<ESC>

-- Alexander

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