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Then I listen to this one, and even though I've only taken one year of German I try to decipher any possible coded messages Nena might be sending to the Germans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrqfp6agug
 
Mostly I just really like looking at Nena. She hot.
 
One more chance to look at Nena

Still hot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjORE4I-qU
 
I learned about Baba Yaga as a young boy playing the game Hero's Quest.

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It changed my life.

Gobert is the Baba Yaga of the NBA.
He has long chicken legs, can fly, wields a pestle to grind his opponents, with his iron teeth he chews up and spits out interior shots, and he scares the crap out of all opposing players and fans.

Gobert = Baba Yaga
 
Jazz Spazz said:
Gobert is the Baba Yaga of the NBA.
He has long chicken legs, can fly, wields a pestle to grind his opponents, with his iron teeth he chews up and spits out interior shots, and he scares the crap out of all opposing players and fans.

Gobert = Baba Yaga
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Quoted for accuracy.
 
Boris said:
This is common European character not just Russian. Read Frau Holle by Brothers Grimm also known as Holda, Hulda, etc. she is but one example of Scandinavian goddess figures.
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Other slavic countries have variations. My secretary, who's from Serbia, knows her as the "Babaroga" and the stories are slightly different and less ambiguous.

Alright, Boris since I'm asking you the hard questions about Russia:

In Gogol's "Dead Souls" he refers vaguely to a disgusting color of yellow that all the buildings in Russia turn over time. He literally just asserts "we all know the color." What is this color?
 
Sirkickyass said:
Other slavic countries have variations. My secretary, who's from Serbia, knows her as the "Babaroga" and the stories are slightly different and less ambiguous.

Alright, Boris since I'm asking you the hard questions about Russia:

In Gogol's "Dead Souls" he refers vaguely to a disgusting color of yellow that all the buildings in Russia turn over time. He literally just asserts "we all know the color." What is this color?
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I do not know context. Yellow House in Russia means insane asylum so maybe he is saying we all turn into that.
 
In the couple of stories I read (not in Russian), she is counting out the spoons and naming the occupants of the house. So she's either extremely OCD, which doesn't make a good witch story, or she is a communist who wants to ensure all things are equally shared.

Or whoever came up with this idea originally was in the kitchen when he/she had an idea of counting an item, and went with the one sitting in the sink.

I'm convinced it means the Russians hate us and want to eat us. They want all of our spoons.

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JazzGal said:
she is counting out the spoons and naming the occupants of the house. So she's either extremely OCD, which doesn't make a good witch story, or she is a communist who wants to ensure all things are equally shared.
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I checked with a friend of mine who lived in the former Soviet Union when she was a little girl. This was pretty much her answer as well.
 
Sirkickyass said:
I'm teaching myself to speak Russian and immersing myself in the culture in a real effort to figure out who these people are that attacked us and what they want.
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Dude, what on earth? You're taking the actions of Russians in power/Russians linked to those in power, and you're extrapolating this sentiment across the rest of the hundreds of millions of Russians? Now think about if people from other countries extrapolated the actions of the US government towards everyone on this forum and concluded that Americans are "a certain way".

Are you a piece of **** because your country is selling arms to Saudi Arabia, who are then using said munitions to massacre Yemeni civilians?


I think we've been very naive because the Russians appear nominally white so we assume that they are about as much like us as the French or the Italians. They are still kind of foreign but in a way we recognize.
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Oh God.

No. The Russians are just as foreign to us as the Japanese or Chinese. They are driven by totally different cultural histories and psychological forces than we are. The last few months have been an experience.
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Driven by different psychological forces? What?

Part of my process has been to get very familiar with the cultural myths that all Russian children are taught.

As always, bringing you the most important content of the day: Sirkickyass
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I think any Russian would laugh hysterically with what you've come up with.

- Brothers Grimm of Germany came up with significantly more grim, macabre, bizarre stories than the one you mentioned.
- If your later argument stems from the impact of communism on Russian culture, well, my family is Albanian. By all accounts, the Communist regime of Albania was significantly more repressive. Why don't Albanians hate the US then?
 
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