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You have encountered Russian humor, congratulations. It's very dry.

• sriram_sun 5y ago
  "They pretended to pay us and we pretended to work." - From my ~68 yo ex-colleague from USSR who lived through the times. Despite that wry comment, he was brilliant and had a Phd. in optics from Moscow University and for whatever reason had to reboot his career as a level 1 technician when he came over to the US. Also, was promoted 5-6 levels up within a year (at Seagate I believe).