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Mayakovsky in Cleveland (2023)
- freitzkriesler2 3y ago[flagged]
- olegious 3y agoThank you for this, perfect read for a weekend morning, reminds me of Ilf and Petrov’s chronicle of their drive across the USA around the same time- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-storied_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-storied_America
- yaky 3y agoAlong with an interesting story, the Russian-language flyer has fascinating Runglish words, phrasing and grammar. "Кливланд" (Cleveland) is spelled with "а" at the end, which makes the pronunciation "Cleev-lahnd". The modern version is "Кливленд", which is pronounced almost the same as English. "Мувис" is just transliterated "Movies". I suppose the movies were new enough that the current words "кино(театр)" (kino(theater)) and "фильм" (film) were not in use within the diaspora. "От'езд" uses an apostrophe instead of ъ, which is what Ukrainian uses. E.g: "від'їзд". "Все идем видеть его" sounds odd. Maybe an English-structured sentence written in Russian, or maybe just the grammar of the times.
- comonoid 3y agoAn apostrophe instead of ъ was sometimes artifact of using an old typewriter (1920th). One hero of literature wondered why all the words are written with ъ (where appropriate), but об'явление (an advertisement on a bulletin board in this context) was invariably written with an apostrophe. Well, many advertisements on boards was typewritten, and even handwritten advertisement started to follow this spelling, and even when typewriter was produced with ъ, this spelling persisted in this context. But it may be an urban legend. Upd: sometime this "legend" says that after the spelling reform of 1918 the ъ at the end of words was banned, this letter was forced to be removed from typewriter as well (though it may be used in a middle of words). The article on this reform in Russian Wikipedia mentions, that for the same reason ъ was seized from typographies to restrict its usage. In both cases an apostrophe was used instead. It seems these facts are consistent with each other and this particular usage of the apostrophe.
- practice9 3y ago[flagged]
- rdtsc 3y agoOne of the biggest shock for me was a few years ago I saw pictures of a protest in Portland and the people were waving the Soviet flag around. I thought, sure this is political satire and trying to make a point, then I was explained that those people are dead serious.
- lovegrenoble 3y agoFor me, it was the nicest country in the world. (I live in France, but was born in CCCP)
- bugglebeetle 3y agoThe Russian Revolution and subsequent Soviet mobilization are one of the main reasons why the Nazis didn’t end up taking over all of Europe, so these things aren’t really comparable.
- lovegrenoble 3y agoThank you.
- sorokod 3y agoThe people leading the Russian revolution of 1917, genuinely believed that it will make the world (and not just Russia) a better place for all humans. Different from the Nazis in Germany.
- lykahb 3y agoNazis believed that they would make the whole world better. Both ideologies explicitly stated that the world is better without some groups of humans. And both USSR and Third Reich were murderous regimes with global ambitions and little regard for human life.