Friday, January 27, 2012

Russian Blogosphere

Russian blogosphere is mostly divided between two camps and the Russian Government is not in any of them. One camp is Stalinist with a heavy degree of antisemitism. The other camp are the "demchiza" people who demand immediate occupation of Russia by the NATO forces and the like. Imagine how popular they might be with simple people in the street.

Seems that the Russian bloggers are locked in the Georgian triangle of Dzugashvili (Stalin)-Saakashvili-Chkhartashvili (pseud. B. Akunin, a detective writer who fashions himself a public figure) with no exit. Below I recite a humorous verse which I downloaded from Russian blog and which probably came from a few authors retaining overall sanity. Because it refers to several nursery rimes unknown to the English-speaking reader, I supply my translation in a modified limerick form.


Кошка бросила котят.
Это Путин виноват.
Зайку бросила хозяйка.
Кто виновен, угадай-ка!

Вот кончается доска
У несчастного бычка.
Наша Таня громко плачет.
Рядом Путин, не иначе.

Свет погас, упал забор,
У авто заглох мотор,
Зуб здоровый удалили,
Иль залез в квартиру вор,
Не понравилось кино,
Наступили Вы в г…но.
У любого катаклизма
Объяснение одно:

Знает каждый демократ-
Это Путин виноват!

If your wife is a bitch,
And the movie was kitsch,
If you stepped into shit,
Or your son is a twit,
Every creative mind
Would not be so blind
There is Putin behind all of it.

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