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It's very odd to write CCCP in an otherwise english paragraph in latin alphabet. YOu would be better understood to write USSR or better just write Soviet Union.
by eterm 5y ago
It's very odd to write CCCP in an otherwise english paragraph in latin alphabet. YOu would be better understood to write USSR or better just write Soviet Union.
(For those unfamiliar, CCCP is SSSR in cyrillic alphabet).
- joshgachnang 5y agoAh thank you! I was thinking China but that's CCP. I was wondering if I was missing something from history.
- harpiaharpyja 5y agoIf you stop to think about it yes it is pretty odd, but enough people do this that I don't have to think twice when I see it. You'd definitely wouldn't see it in formal writing, but informally it's not uncommon. A quirk of cross-cultural transmission maybe?
- colechristensen 5y agoI think it's more often subtle morality/superiority signaling by calling an entity by a different name. Think Republicans referring to the "Democrat party" instead of the "Democratic" or people using "CCP" instead of "China".
- MrMorden 5y ago"China" can refer to any number of different things; "CCP" only refers to the Party.
- sigstoat 5y ago…do you not make a distinction between “china” and the chinese communist party? i think even the CCP itself does.
- colechristensen 5y agoChina the government, people, and place are separate and which one is being referred to is basically always obvious from context. People don’t do this naming a political organization instead of country name for government actions for anywhere else in the world
- Dylan16807 5y agoIf I use CCP instead of China it's not to signal morality/superiority myself, it's to fend off people that are going to get all fussy and misinterpret and declare themselves moral/superior.
- colechristensen 5y agoSometimes accepting the premise of people you're trying to disagree with ends up reinforcing their position.
- Dylan16807 5y agoI'm okay accepting the premise that 'China' is ambiguous sometimes.
- CoastalCoder 5y agoI grew up in the US in the 1970s and 1980s. We usually used the term "USSR", but I think most of us recognized "CCCP" as the Russian equivalent.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoYes, believe it was on their jackets at the Olympics. That’s where I learned it.
- toyg 5y agoFolklore: in Italy, at the time the USSR was a real football power (Euro finalist etc), CCCP was often used for kids jokes as meaning "Col Cazzo Che Perdiamo" ("we ain't fucking losing").
- rg111 5y agoYes, I am very familiar with the name CCCP because of the space stuff. All their propaganda posters featuring rockets would contain those letters.