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Historians nowadays pretty much agree that the Golodomer (~death from hunder) was not deliberately planned.

Great translations btw

Ha ha ha......WHOOOOOOOOOOSH

and no, I don't know how one would say "taint" in Russian, sorry lolol

Robert,

Of course Russia's official answer to Ukrainian claims of genocide is their own famine at the same time all throughout the Volga region up to western Siberia, which basically says "we couldn't have taken it from Ukraine because we were starving ourselves"... Like you said, there is so much politicking around the issue that real truth is the first casualty.

Btw, one common misperception in the West is that Stalin was a RUSSIAN dictator, while he was actually ethnic GEORGIAN who russified his name, so Russians naturally get the blame for "all those people Stalin ordered killed".

Props on the translation lol Exciting to find a Westerner who knows the "u00d0u009eu00d0u00bfu00d0u00b0, u00d0u00beu00d0u00bfu00d0u00b0, u00d0u0090u00d0u00bcu00d0u00b5u00d1u0080u00d0u00b8u00d0u00bau00d0u00b0 - u00d0u0095u00d0u00b2u00d1u0080u00d0u00beu00d0u00bfu00d0u00b0" genre lol Do you study Russian?
Are you familiar with Barkov, a 18th century writer who wrote profane poetry that grew into modern common jokes, the Anekdoty?

This is about KITTENS, not genocide. Go somewhere else with your numbers. Blek.

Following up to my previous comment: the figure "as many as 10 million" is pretty widely circulated in the West as the estimated number of Ukrainians who died in Stalin's deliberately planned famine of 1932-33.

Of course, this number is problematic because -- as with all genocide claims -- the politics involved are so bitter and passionate.

@Max: "I donu00e2u0080u0099t know where the number 20mil comes from, most files from that era talk about 2-3mil Gulag deaths."

The "20 million Soviets killed by their own government" claim presumably includes those who died in the Ukrainian famines under Stalin. (I'm not asserting that 20 million is an accurate number; I'm just saying that it reflects the deaths by famine in addition to those who died in the Gulags.)

Max: Hmmm, does Russian have a word equivalent to the American slang "taint"? That is, the region that "separates" the genitals from the anus -- so called because "iT AIN'T the pussy/balls and iT AIN'T the asshole." (Note that it's a unisex term.)

Anyway, here's my suggested translation for the chestushki above:

Alas, alas, her cunt's fused with her ass!
There should be space betwixt -- one hopes she'll get it fixed.

None of the "linguists" so incensed and posting here get the reason for the Russian text. Translation clearly isn't the point. The translation *points*, and what it points to is 1) the fact that an orientalist version of Russian humor is what's funny here, and 2) the direction of HOW we're supposed to take these jokes and what tone they take (see #1), NOT what is actually being said.

This is an example of a "chestushki", short poems that usually contain profanity. This particular one goes something like

"Oops, oops, a c*nt and an a%%hole have grown together!
That simply cannot be - separation there must be!"

Probably true of Western and Eastern idiots too, as I'm sure we've proven there's plenty in both societies.

does it say 'do not feed the trolls'? good advice.

Well here's some Russian folk wisdom on the subject for you, pathetic shit, that comes from before the age of LOLcats.

u00d0u009eu00d0u00bfu00d0u00b0, u00d0u00beu00d0u00bfu00d0u00b0, u00d1u0081u00d1u0080u00d0u00beu00d1u0081u00d0u00bbu00d0u00b0u00d1u0081u00d1u008c u00d0u00bfu00d0u00b8u00d0u00b7u00d0u00b4u00d0u00b0 u00d0u00b8 u00d0u00b6u00d0u00beu00d0u00bfu00d0u00b0!
u00d0u00adu00d1u0082u00d0u00beu00d0u00b3u00d0u00be u00d0u00bdu00d0u00b5 u00d0u00bcu00d0u00beu00d0u00b6u00d0u00b5u00d1u0082 u00d0u00b1u00d1u008bu00d1u0082u00d1u008c - u00d0u00bfu00d1u0080u00d0u00beu00d0u00bcu00d0u00b5u00d0u00b6u00d1u0083u00d1u0082u00d0u00beu00d0u00ba u00d0u00b4u00d0u00beu00d0u00bbu00d0u00b6u00d0u00b5u00d0u00bd u00d0u00b1u00d1u008bu00d1u0082u00d1u008c!

Go do some research.

the correlation is that you are both, you tedious cunting arsehole.

the only remaining correlation that I fail to see is between a "tedious cunt" and a "arsehole", you fat fuck.

@comrade

the correlation is that everyone enjoys stereotyping, including you - so stop moaning, you tedious cunt.

For non-Russians studying the language, the most significant point in this caption is in the third line:

"i MORDU borozdyat morshciny"
(And the FACE is furrowed with wrinkles)

"Morda" (u00d0u00bcu00d0u00beu00d1u0080u00d0u00b4u00d0u00b0) means essentially the same as "litso" (u00d0u00bbu00d0u00b8u00d1u0086u00d0u00be), namely "face," but the latter word is used only when speaking of humans, and the former only in reference to non-human animals, like "snout" or "muzzle." (If you use "morda" for a human's face, it's like "ugly mug" in English.)

Similarly, in English, both animals and humans can "die" and become "dead," but in Russian a room-temperature dog is u00d0u00b4u00d0u00beu00d0u00b6u00d0u00bbu00d1u008bu00d0u00b9 (verb: u00d0u00b4u00d0u00beu00d1u0085u00d0u00bdu00d1u0083u00d1u0082u00d1u008c) while a room-temperature human is u00d0u00bcu00d1u0091u00d1u0080u00d1u0082u00d0u00b2u00d1u008bu00d0u00b9 (verb: u00d1u0083u00d0u00bcu00d0u00b8u00d1u0080u00d0u00b0u00d1u0082u00d1u008c) -- and confusing the two sounds either disgusting or ignorant.

Then of course there's the excellent term-of-abuse u00d0u00bcu00d1u0083u00d0u00b4u00d0u00b0u00d0u00ba ("mudu00c3u00a1k," pronounced like "moo-DOCK"). It more or less translates "asshole" or "dickhead," and thus could be applied liberally to someone like Harold. But to be more specific, "mudak" comes from a word that means "the male genitalia of a non-human animal." So it's roughly like calling someone a "dog-scrotum" as an insult.

There are a number of other examples where Russian tends to make a stricter distinction between humans and other animals than we typically do in English, but these are the first few that came to my mind.

I don't care where you are from personally. When I said: these COMMENTS and JOKES are xenophobic that was my point. And that didn't imply that I myself or Russians as an ethnicity are squeeky clean, in fact we are a pretty dam racist bunch trust me I know that. Just pointing out the fact that whoever came up with these is not much better. It's like calling all GERMANS - Nazis, all ARABS - terrorists, and all Black people - gangsters. Now do you see the correlation, my cosmopolitan comrade?

Silence your bickering comrades! What the old cat speaks is true. We must all do our part to ease the strain of our glorious mtoherland.

Nah, that wasn't your 'point'. All you're doing is flailing around trying to hit on a suitable xenophobic epithet to try to offend me. Not getting any closer, by the way. I'm not of British descent, either.
Keep it up though, you've now written off a very significant proportion of the world population as racists, based on their nationality. Go for gold and throw in a couple more continents.

my point is: it doesn't matter where you're from - you think like a redneck. And the fact that most English colonies have descendents from the same racist morons only strengthens that point. And I knew you weren't American, coz no one here says 'Arse'

Fantastic, another brave campaigner against national stereotypes using xenophobia to argue their point.
Also, the 'great' in great britain was put there to distinguish it from brittany.
Also, I'm not British, so you too are wrong and an asshole.
This is hilarious, let's see how many more xenophobic babblings we can get out of the 'rolcats are racist' lobby before they guess someone's nationality right.

yeah but who the fuck cares about your Russophobic island you call "Great". It's all been bought up by Russian and Arab oil men anyway.

well i'm sorry, fucko, you're completely wrong.
they have english in a lot of places these days, england for one.

You know, you got me there GaGa. But for some reason ppl who sign their name as 'SuxCox' don't seem Chinese... ppl who read an English language blog that uses US Pacific time zone timestamps and reply to my posts from the East coast in real time MUST be sitting in a cave in Pakistan.

"coz these comments here make Americans sound like arseholes."

how do you know where people posting are from?
'these people are stereotyping russians, they must all be american scum'. what's the russian for irony?

Alaska? coz it was bought from the Russians? Well Russian descendants are still there - ever wonder why Sara Palin's last name sounds so much like 'Lenin', 'Stalin', 'Putin' - coz it's Russian. No the manhattan reference was intentional - it really did get bought for $24 unlike Alaska.

I intend to make Russian speakers sound like arseholes coz these comments here make Americans sound like arseholes. Just giving some "alternative arsehole perspective" here. We live in the age of "arsehole for an arsehole" after all.

what do people drink in Texas?

I'm not familiar with Texas but stereotypes suggest they probably don't drink bud light. Hope my stereotyping doesn't make any sensitive little Texan men cry...
Why are you so intent on making Russian speakers look like complete arseholes?

PS: big lulz on the manhattan joke, Alaska might have been a more pertinent reference?

and no, I sit in a ranch in Texas with my Bud light and my M-16 ready to shoot illegals, as I think of new ways to legalize slavery.

errr, well as a Russian speaker I'm telling you that the subject of the RUSSIAN comments on the pics themselves is America. For example the text next to the cat on the pic above says:
"Ahh such beauty this island of Manhattan. This land used to belong to somebody, but we bought the whole island for $24, wiped the owners out and are now making millions off of real estate, kill scores in the Middle East and lecture the world about what is fair and democratic. But at least we're not the evil Commies."

HAve a nice day :)

"and who mentioned Russia?"

er, it's the subject of the whole blog...
do you just sit in a quonset hut on the edge of the forest wasted on vodka, getting upset about lolcats all day?

>>Iu00e2u0080u0099m sure the russian soldiers killed a lot of nazis, but iu00e2u0080u0099m pretty sure the weather had a _lot_ to do with it. Pretty frosty out there

any more "Russia stereotypes"? I'm sure they also dropped vodka at the Nazis who then proceeded to drink themselves to death, as blaring Chaikovsky music tortured them ...And in the end were eaten by bears as they were desperately trying to finish War and Peace before V-Day.
Yea any German who goes to Russia will def freeze to death while Russian kids all have bear skin so they dont die.

Read about Stalingrad, buddy, the last stop in the Nazi march to Caspian oil where battles were fought over over every city block. Read about Kursk, the biggest battle in world history, where 1.5mln Germans were fought to a tactical draw. the US at the time drove back ~25.000 germans in the invasion of Sicily, but did the Nazis need spaghetti as much as oil for their Tiger tanks?

Leningrad was under siege for over a year with a million ppl starving to death (not b/c it's so cold there). As US soldiers were advancing to Berlin they were given Stalingrad as an example by their officers and were told to "fight like the Russians".

America employed a clever strategy pitting Hitler against Stalin since Rosevelt didn't trust either, but US weapons were supplied to the USSR to tip the scale in Soviet favor. The new superpowers redrew the map of Europe as Cold war started and each was claiming the corner on truth, which is why these battles I mentioned are not taught in US schools and no one in the USSR knew about D-Day or Iwo Jima (everyone knew about Hiroshima:))) Anyway this is all in the past and we can talk cats all we want now.

and who mentioned Russia?

@max: why are you randomly ranting about America? No-one even mentioned the US.

"subscribe me"

@Max
I'm sure the russian soldiers killed a lot of nazis, but i'm pretty sure the weather had a _lot_ to do with it. Pretty frosty out there.

ps. Btw, I think the figure 20mil is the standard historical number of Russian deaths due to Nazi invasion.

CCCPolice,

I'm not saying the gulags were fair, I'm just saying arresting millions of blacks for being black in American history and making them work in jail chain gangs is not much fairer (what's the current # of ppl in US jails and what is their dominant race?). The USA industrialized in the 19th century, mostly due to black and Asian immigrant labor. Russia had 20 years in between the two world wars to industrialize in order to defeat the Nazis (88% of Nazi deaths were on the Russian front). Of course the methods Stalin used were brutal, but the problems Russia faced - Nazi onslaught, industrializing Siberian permafrost in a country spanning 11 time zones (compare with 3 in the USA) were also MUCH harder.

I don't know where the number 20mil comes from, most files from that era talk about 2-3mil Gulag deaths. Btw, have you heard about the 2 nuclear bombs that USA dropped that killed all those innocent civillians around the same time? How about Japanese-American interment camps?

Oh and you're welcome for all those 88% of killed Nazis before the USA showed up to 'win' the war.

@Max - You are so right. I mean the Russians were the pinnacle of non-discriminatory societies... except for those 20 million people they killed.

Damn, I must be inane.. I just laughed and laughed till there weren't no more..

Then I hit the end.. then I decided to hit the comments, and give props

Genius, comrades!

Haha the English comments are funny coz they're racist, I get it. The actual Russian pokes fun at rednecks though.
"Oh what great happiness to live in a free country, time to check up on those chinamen building the railroad to the West coast... or maybe I'll go hang some lazy n----- from the chain gang. But at least my country doesn't have gulags."

Back then times were really hairy.

abundant cat nibbles is communism!

Robert Synnott: You must be working with an outdated dictionary. The picture actually says: "Teh horror of teh existence can has inscribed its litany of sorrows on mai face."

I think I prefer the real translation, in this case. "Mewing is becoming harder by the year".

I was born in 1983, so I've at least seen the tail end of all this, before Gorby. Not that I recall any of it.

I was born in 1989. I'm not that old...

@Anna - "1989 is a long, long way in the past"

People should turn up to history class then :D :wink:

@Sergei It's funny, I'm trying to dredge up some actual Soviet sloganeering to translate for a reply, but nothing comes up anymore. It was all so freaking long ago. Damn I'm old.

I love the real translations.. thanks guys. It's amazing how much different Russian lolcats are from American.

Cheer up Anna. The fields will rustle again with golden wheat so that in our native Soviet land bread will be in plenty. Go forward along the way illuminated by the great Stalin!