Certainly, we're proud of our patriotism, but a flag-waving cuckoo clock seems like a heavy-handed and unrealistic caricature of patriotism. (Also, our flag-waving tends to be on July 4th and a few...
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Certainly, we're proud of our patriotism, but a flag-waving cuckoo clock seems like a heavy-handed and unrealistic caricature of patriotism. (Also, our flag-waving tends to be on July 4th and a few...
Насчет постапокалиптических мультиков (speaking of postapocalyptic cartoons), I hope everyone has seen Будет ласковый дождь, an absolutely outstanding 1984 Soviet animation based on the 1950 short...
The general scenario reminds me of the famous cartoon short Peace on Earth (MGM, 1939), which was remade by Hanna-Barbera in 1955 as Good Will to Men. Needless to say, the remake was deeply concerned...
As an example of what I mean by "subtle connotative bias", consider a pair of passages describing two major events of 1956: the suppression of an anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary, and the Suez Canal...
I've been offline from the Internet for a few days, but in the meantime I was reading through the long excerpts from a Russian history textbook provided by Marcus.
First, thanks to Marcus for...
Well, it's good for new immigrants -- they can go on wearing the clothing styles from "The Old Country", and eat their "Old Country" foods, and speak English with an extremely heavy accent... but if...
I remember that when I was in grades 3-5, probably 95% of the boys my age (including me) participated in the Cub Scouts. But that percentage was, I think, unusually high because most of us were...
FoxNews competes with many other privately owned media companies whose content and opinions are not tightly controlled by a centralized government. And not all of FoxNews's competitors are large...
And to the extent that Soviet people knew about western propaganda, they (reportedly) sometimes had to resort to such extraordinary measures as making homemade audio recordings on old X-ray films and...
As far as I am aware, the word пропаганда in Russian historically had a totally neutral connotation -- unlike the English word, which is nearly always a very negative term. (Which is to say, the...
Who can tell Rooskies apart from Ukies? You people all look the same, just like Chinks and Japs and Gooks... of course, the problem may be that слишком много телевизора вредно глазам, и поэтому у нас...
My parents are retired out in Arizona, and my dad works as a volunteer tour guide at the Titan II Missile Museum near Tucson. (The only Titan II silo still in existence -- though the missile now has...
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Q: "Why should you put your machine-gun UNDER you in the event of a nuclear explosion?"
A: "So that the drops of molten metal don't ruin your uniform."
Q: "Why should you lie down with...
Well, how does that old song go again? Oh, yeah:
"Союз нерушимый республик свободных.
Сплотила навеки Великая Русь"
(I.e., While the угнетающая верхушка [oppressive elite leadership] of the...
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