Because, Russia

[Ssnake]

Estonia too poor. It cannot afford of blond wigs.

[Roman Alymov]

Who need potato when have turnip

Potato is WAY better then turnip when it comes to having it as main food over long time. I have already told Russian idiom about turnip here.

[Panzermann]

Yes. Dairy products plus potatoes is actually quite a well rounded nutrition.

[urbanoid]

Indeed. Yummy (if without onion ) http://crawfishandcaramel.com/alpermagronen-swiss-herdsmen-macaroni-potato-and-cheese/

[TonyE]

Turnip + Straw=Tomorrows Politician.

 

I thought that Jack Straw was out?

 

[Roman Alymov]

Article in German, but author know what he is writing about http://www.brandeins.de/archiv/2014/spass/humor-spass-in-russland-tote-seelen-und-ein-50-kilo-hecht-nach-dem-ersten-drittel/

In Russian http://inosmi.ru/social/20151224/234907250.html

[BansheeOne]

Article in German, but author know what he is writing about http://www.brandeins.de/archiv/2014/spass/humor-spass-in-russland-tote-seelen-und-ein-50-kilo-hecht-nach-dem-ersten-drittel/

In Russian http://inosmi.ru/social/20151224/234907250.html

 

I found these two paragraphs the most instructive.

 

[...]

 

Russian humor is rebellious. In Soviet times, many risked their head with Stalin or Breshnev jokes. Under more democratic conditions, a politically most incorrect humor deveoped which aimed at gays, blacks and liberals. But Putin's rule has sharpened political humor again, too: "In the game against the domestic national ice hockey team, Vladimir Putin scored six goals. In the break after the first third, he cut a hole into the ice and fished a 50-kilo pike."

 

In the Vodka Shop with Adolf Hitler

 

This joke is aimed at the unallowed which people are drawn to: "What do you have to do for a Russian to jump off a 200-meter bridge? Hang a sign: 'Jumping from bridge positively prohibited'." When it comes to defying the laws of gravity or statistics, the Russians are in. Back in the day, drunks held a revolver loaded with just a single cartridge to their temple and pulled the trigger. In Russia, this was called "hussar roulette". Today, drunks are blissfully speeding through red traffic lights. And it can happen that Russian women in love put a leg over your knee in the first-to-last commuter train from Sergiyev Posad to Moscow and purr: "I want sex now."

 

[...]

[Roman Alymov]

 

Article in German, but author know what he is writing about http://www.brandeins.de/archiv/2014/spass/humor-spass-in-russland-tote-seelen-und-ein-50-kilo-hecht-nach-dem-ersten-drittel/

In Russian http://inosmi.ru/social/20151224/234907250.html

 

I found these two paragraphs the most instructive.

 

[...]

 

Russian humor is rebellious. In Soviet times, many risked their head with Stalin or Breshnev jokes. Under more democratic conditions, a politically most incorrect humor deveoped which aimed at gays, blacks and liberals. But Putin's rule has sharpened political humor again, too: "In the game against the domestic national ice hockey team, Vladimir Putin scored six goals. In the break after the first third, he cut a hole into the ice and fished a 50-kilo pike."

 

In the Vodka Shop with Adolf Hitler

 

 

 

Not exactly linked to political changes, more with general irony of “PR people” to make some kind of superman out of Putin, resulting in him being commonly referred as “Supreme Siberian crane” (by the way more or less dropped in last couple of years). Now more common is sarcasm directed on Western hysterical perception of Russia and Putin – it is normal for Russians to refer to Putin as “His Dark Majesty” (“Темнейший»), to Russia as “Evil Empire” (“у нас тут в Империи Зла…»), Moscow as Mordor, to Russians themselves as Orks and to Westerners and especially pro-Ukrainians as “Elfs” or “Angels of light” or “Warriors of Good” (following popular Russian rock song Maidanians adopted as kind of hymn)

And you missed actual "In the Vodka Shop with Adolf Hitler" part

[Panzermann]

There! Right there we have the clash of culture: 'murricans cannot into irony.

[Mike Steele]

xxxxx

Edited December 24, 2015 by Mike Steele

[BansheeOne]

And you missed actual "In the Vodka Shop with Adolf Hitler" part

As the author suggests, I seem to lack the cultural background to unterstand the Stirlitz jokes ...

[Simon Tan]

Uberstanding is insufficient.

[bojan]

Stirlitz jokes ...

 

Should find and watch "17 Moments of Spring" ASAP.

[Roman Alymov]

http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-russia-analysis/

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF RUSSIA ANALYSIS

 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/world/asia/russia-arming.html?_r=0

Russia Rearms for a New Era

[Roman Alymov]

 

Stirlitz jokes ...

 

Should find and watch "17 Moments of Spring" ASAP.

 

May be of little use since "Shtirlitz" jokes are heavyly linked to specific generation and even young Russians (below 30) are not getting them right.

[Roman Alymov]

Another example of what was named "schizophrenia” here – burial service and burial of the soldier killed in 1942, found in 2015. Coffin covered by both Russian and Red flags, plate with red star on traditional orthodox cross…

 

 

[Roman Alymov]

http://www.gazeta.ru/social/2015/12/03/7933403.shtml Lengthy article (in Russian) on problems of army canteens and civilian outsoource

[urbanoid]

 

 

Stirlitz jokes ...

 

Should find and watch "17 Moments of Spring" ASAP.

 

May be of little use since "Shtirlitz" jokes are heavyly linked to specific generation and even young Russians (below 30) are not getting them right.

 

 

When I was about 16 y.o. or less, I did understand Stirlitz jokes. But OTOH I was always interested in history.

 

Btw. when you mentioned 'drinking Bavarian beer if USSR defeated by Nazis', I was thinking that you recycled an old Stirlitz joke with Heineken.

Edited December 25, 2015 by urbanoid

[Roman Alymov]

 

When I was about 16 y.o. or less, I did understand Stirlitz jokes. But OTOH I was always interested in history.

 

Btw. when you mentioned 'drinking Bavarian beer if USSR defeated by Nazis', I was thinking that you recycled an old Stirlitz joke with Heineken.

 

It is not about age, but about living through specific conditions that are gone now. No, I do not know Stirlitz joke with Heineken – IMHO in “Stirlitz joks” time this brand was not known in USSR. “Drinking Bavarian” is about narrative surprisingly shared by extreme Russian liberals and Russian Nazis.

[urbanoid]

The one with Heineken must be newer approach to the joke, it might have been 'Bavarian beer' or sth. else in some earlier version.

 

It's about Stirlitz returning to SU, entering a pub in St. Pete. He got his beer and commented: 'what a piss!'. Then some other guy in a bar said: 'you shouldn't have spied that well, we'd be drinking Heineken/Bavarian beer/whatever'.

[Roman Alymov]

The one with Heineken must be newer approach to the joke, it might have been 'Bavarian beer' or sth. else in some earlier version.

 

It's about Stirlitz returning to SU, entering a pub in St. Pete. He got his beer and commented: 'what a piss!'. Then some other guy in a bar said: 'you shouldn't have spied that well, we'd be drinking Heineken/Bavarian beer/whatever'.

Seems like this joke is based on the same idea liberals enjoy.

[Roman Alymov]

Social advertising reel – “Comeback home”

[Simon Tan]

[bd1]

Tv-channel Zvezda video over russian AshMs Onyx/Yakhont. only video is from norwegian NSM-tests

https://www.facebook.com/karl.shrayber/videos/199966223679427/

Edited December 27, 2015 by bd1

[Simon Tan]

Zvezda does Minomets!