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Russian rulers are pretty strange. Another couple of facts you probably didn't know: Putin is crab and Medvedev is a bumblebee. For Medvedev it's pretty simple
by avaika 8y ago
Russian rulers are pretty strange. Another couple of facts you probably didn't know: Putin is crab and Medvedev is a bumblebee.
For Medvedev it's pretty simple: in his young years he sang on a party popular song "Woolly bumblebee" from a popular movie and told that to journalists. That was probably the most interesting part of interview and search engines got flooded with queries like "Medvedev bumblebee". So the phrase became viral and now everybody is aware of his true nature :)
For Putin it's even funnier: he told the journalists that during his presidency he works as a slave on a galley. In Russian words "slave" and "crab" are pretty close: "rab" and "crab". And the word "as" contains the first letter from "crab". So there was a typo in the newspaper stating that Putin works as crab on galley: "как раб на галере" > "как краб на галере".
- walrus01 8y agoReminds me of the Chinese anti-censorship memes of the grass mud horse, and river crabs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
- bcaa7f3a8bbc 8y agoEver heard of "Winnie-the-Pooh" [0] and "The Toad" [1]? It seems having some memes referring to the head-of-state is a common pattern in countries with authoritarian governments, since calling them directly by names is, at least, uncomfortable. [0] https://www.vox.com/2018/8/4/17651630/christopher-robin-banned-in-china-pooh https://www.vox.com/2018/8/4/17651630/christopher-robin-bann... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moha_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moha_culture