Have strength, my little cabbage.

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Have strength, my little cabbage. By the mercy of NKVD Order No. 00447, we have been chosen for Resettlement.

We will show the tin mines of Kolyma the true power of the proletariat.

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danja's status on Saturday, 20-Jun-09 23:26:41 UTC moderator
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[...] @ldodds Have strength, my little cabbage. http://localhost:9101/2009/02/06/149/ [...]

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Race and the Mortgage Crisis « Rortybomb moderator
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[...] as many loans to poor minorities as you do to whites over the next two years, or I shall inform the tin mines of Kolyma that they’ll have another worker starting next [...]

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Heartburn Home Remedy moderator
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I read your blog for quite a long time and should tell you that your articles are always valuable to readers.

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HalloThar moderator
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This is definitely a favorite for me. :D

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RUSSIAxUSA moderator
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MQDuck: You understand they are actually fighting not hugging, right?

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MQDuck moderator
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Okay, this photo is just stupidly cute.Unbelievably cute.

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Fischer moderator
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"We, ugly Americans, sure do love to laugh - so long as its @ others’ expense. Someone hx0rz this site already. Lame."Really? I didn't realize some people were so humorless.

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N moderator
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@asd:That's the point. Go google yourself some 00447.

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Harold moderator
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We, ugly Americans, sure do love to laugh - so long as its @ others' expense. Someone hx0rz this site already. Lame.

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Hydra moderator
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Shouldn't that be "proletaricat"?

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asd moderator
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I may be wrong, but Kolyma mines were gold mines, and only GULAG workers were working there, no one was being resettled there.

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greedydave moderator
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This website is magnificent and honours the memory of comrade Brezhnev.You must all come to my dasha where we will sit afront the fire, drink potato vodka and reminisce about Minsk.

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A conversation we have all of us had « Redikulus moderator
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[...] square, we ate a hearty meal of breakfast burritos and onion rings. Those were happier days. But here in the mines of Narodnaya, for us there is only sweat and dust and the meager root [...]

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Stormrider moderator
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This website is fantastic. Fact.

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Fluent moderator
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Yeewuu, armpit humor! It's a good thing there isn't an Internet capabilty for inserting farts; these Russian cat posts have been violated by Homer Simpson!

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Prokofy Neva moderator
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Correct translation:"If you've invited a girl to dance, don't be happy, you'll still have to dance with her first."

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tastouch moderator
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I am fluent in both Russian and Kat, psychically fluent, so stop being boorish. The translations are purrfect. Eat your borscht.

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Ashe moderator
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Oh so, so perfect. I'm going to have to refer to loved ones as "little cabbage" from now on.

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Lorez moderator
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So wonderful.

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Sammy moderator
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It is apparent that the many commenters who insist that the captions are not a correct translation, are too post-Soviet to have learned how to read between the lines.Let me tell you--that was true reading, comrades!

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Eric Rosenfield moderator
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That's not what that says, tovarish!The westerners lie.

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  1. [...] square, we ate a hearty meal of breakfast burritos and onion rings. Those were happier days. But here in the mines of Narodnaya, for us there is only sweat and dust and the meager root [...]

  2. [...] as many loans to poor minorities as you do to whites over the next two years, or I shall inform the tin mines of Kolyma that they’ll have another worker starting next [...]