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Could anyone recommend comedic Russian novels or short stories? Edited to add the following: Thanks for the recommendations!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Gaidai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldar_Ryazanov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgiy_Daneliya
Edit: probably not so short, just regular stories... so maybe not what you're looking for.
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Soviets != Russia, yes the USSR was sort of a new iteration of The Russian Empire, but you can't call armenians, ukrainians, georgians and so on russians this simply wrong
There are infinitely less difference between Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians than, for example, between those Americans who live in California and Texas.
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Soviets != Russia, yes the USSR was sort of a new iteration of The Russian Empire, but you can't call armenians, ukrainians, georgians and so on russians this simply wrong
There are infinitely less difference between Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians than, for example, between those Americans who live in California and Texas.
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There are infinitely less difference between Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians than, for example, between those Americans who live in California and Texas.
There is an armed Russian Ukrainian armed conflict happening right now ...
Oh, and there was an “insurrection” in US Capital in case you didn’t notice.
The only difference is that the first one has a very strong external support while the second one does not and, luckily, failed quickly.
any more suggestions would be most welcome
Among the Russian films with a strong political innuendo I've seen, "Welcome, no trespassing" was the sharpest and one of the most enjoyable. It's about a scout camp where the the director oppresses the children with stupid formal procedures, patriotic ceremonies, and abuses of power. I could not understand why this film was allowed, since the camp is an obvious metaphor of the USSR. I'm also surprised one of the mos…
In fact, just the year before, Krushchev had personally ordered the publication of One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which is also quite hard to believe got published in Soviet times, even with redactions. The leash was pulled short again not long after that!
Anyway, legend has it that Krushchev also got a preview of "Welcome, or No Trespassing" and liked it. So he ordered it immediately released. I don't know if that's true, but it certainly could be.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Soviets != Russia, yes the USSR was sort of a new iteration of The Russian Empire, but you can't call armenians, ukrainians, georgians and so on russians this simply wrong
There are infinitely less difference between Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians than, for example, between those Americans who live in California and Texas.
Could anyone recommend comedic Russian novels or short stories? Edited to add the following: Thanks for the recommendations!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are infinitely less difference between Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians than, for example, between those Americans who live in California and Texas.
Californian and Texan accents might be mutually incomprehensible, but they' re not completely different languages like Ukrainian, Russian, and Belorussian.
Source: I grew up in Ukraine