Eric -- yes, I understand what Пиндостан means! Roughly "Damnyankeestan" or "Gringo-land".* From the slang word пиндос, which signifies "a f*cking American."
I'm using it ironically in a "Say It Loud, I'm Pindos and Proud!" sense. The way that some African-Americans call themselves "Nigga", or some Orthodox Jews who wear kippot/yarmulkes (ермолки) will describe themselves as "Yids with Lids", or some gay people call themselves "Queer" (originally a very rude word), etc.
* Incidentally, "gringo" (a rude Spanish word for foreigners, but especially for English-speakers from the USA) comes from griego, which literally means "a Greek". Just as пиндос historically meant "an ethnic Greek living in Russia," but now has the slang meaning "f*cking Yankee". But as far as I know, пиндос as rude slang for an American only goes back to the Kosovo war, while "gringo" is at least a century older.



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