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I think he says "Мальвина понравилась?"

Seriously, I don't know. It just sounds like the boy wants to provoke some reaction and he gets it. Maybe it was caused more by the fact that the boy is being a wiseass, than by actual question, or...

1. To sculpt with bread (the technique is similar to sculpting with clay and similar materials). It's a popular pasttime in Russian prisons, so it's funny, because this guy is teaching the kids his...

Of course it was not Stalin, who invented the phrase. The quote above just illustrates, that it was common enough to worm itself into an official pronouncment by state leader. ;)

The origins of...

Quote whomever you want if it illustrates the grammar point in question, unlike this weird Reagan quote. )))

+1:lol:

I had a similar girl in my class, she joined a cloister after school. But she was a pioneer, and until this moment I did not even think that there was something weird about it. :)
Her believes did...

No one knows for sure what "шутняк" is here, even native Russian speakers, so chalk it up to weird criminal slang, or maybe scriptwriters fantasy. :)

I see what you mean. I just want to point out that even though there was some pressure in certain situations, things were more relaxed in the USSR than many people believe.

My cousin refused to...

Our society is a controlled herd, even more so in the Western countries where your every step is monitored between banking system and omnipresent cameras. So unless you and your kids are going to...

I'm not sure what you meant by this. I personally don't see anything wrong with kids having their own organisation.

Бескозырка - literally головной убор без козырька (козырёк - a (cap) peak) ;)

Странно. Пионеров отменили, а дети в галстуках остались. :)
Фото, сделанное мное в Крыму год назад:...

Батя = father (colloquial, but rather common)
Деятель - literally "a prominent figure", but can be used ironically, especially about someone who's energetic but fails to produce anything except of...