A man is waiting in a bread line and, after hours of waiting, gets to the front, only to discover they’re all out. Frustrated, he loudly curses the government. A retired KGB officer hears him and says, “In my day, if you had said that, we’d have you shot!”
The man goes home, and when his wife sees that he’s empty handed, she asks, “Did they run out of bread?”
The man shakes his head and says, “It’s worse than that. They’ve run out of bullets.”
My son wears an “I’m With Putin” t-shirt for the last two weeks. Since then he was beaten, spat at, thrown bottles at. I’m afraid to think what will happen, if he ever dares to leave the house.
Does anyone have any idea of how common these are? I'm trying to understand what the general population (understanding there is a spectrum) feels about the war and Putin. The best insight I had...
Does anyone have any idea of how common these are? I'm trying to understand what the general population (understanding there is a spectrum) feels about the war and Putin. The best insight I had was from This American Life's episode "The Other Mr. President" and while it seemed to give a fair rub - it is still from a very slanted, American perspective. I know we have quite a few folks from Russia on here, does this article resonate with your experience. What is the current sentiment on the war and on Putin in general?
Half of these jokes is definitely old USSR jokes where Stalin replaced with Putin. I don't think they very popular, because that's basically rehashing, but maybe I'm just old.
Half of these jokes is definitely old USSR jokes where Stalin replaced with Putin. I don't think they very popular, because that's basically rehashing, but maybe I'm just old.
I’m not from Russia, but my wife is. She still has friends and family there. I can’t extrapolate too much, but: One is married to a Ukrainian wife whose family still lives there. Obviously they’re...
I’m not from Russia, but my wife is. She still has friends and family there. I can’t extrapolate too much, but:
One is married to a Ukrainian wife whose family still lives there. Obviously they’re not in favor.
One has a son in the US, wants to come here too. Speaks much more freely when visiting than on the phone, definitely hates Putin and the war. Sadly she seems to have few people in Russia that she can associate with and has cut off relations with many over this.
One of those many is also a friend of my wife — fully brainwashed and supports it all. They’ve nearly lost all contact because conversations always end heated — after a lifetime of being best friends.
One is very wealthy and benefits from the corruption, basically has the attitude of “as long as I don’t lose my stuff” — their relationship is also severely strained. Her husband has a Ukrainian last name, but has always lived in Russia.
We have a Ukraine flag bumper sticker on our car. We frequently get thumbs up and friendly waves from truck drivers with Ukrainian names on their truck door, many from Canada that are driving through (we live near the border), but one of our neighbors who was born in a Russian speaking part of Ukraine hates it and is very much in favor of Russia taking the territory. That makes no sense to me.
A bunch of anecdotes don’t add up to data, but maybe give you some kind of answer.
That's a pretty good one! 😂
I liked the one in the comments
I think this was my favorite:
My favorite:
Hits a little close to home...
Does anyone have any idea of how common these are? I'm trying to understand what the general population (understanding there is a spectrum) feels about the war and Putin. The best insight I had was from This American Life's episode "The Other Mr. President" and while it seemed to give a fair rub - it is still from a very slanted, American perspective. I know we have quite a few folks from Russia on here, does this article resonate with your experience. What is the current sentiment on the war and on Putin in general?
Half of these jokes is definitely old USSR jokes where Stalin replaced with Putin. I don't think they very popular, because that's basically rehashing, but maybe I'm just old.
I’m not from Russia, but my wife is. She still has friends and family there. I can’t extrapolate too much, but:
One is married to a Ukrainian wife whose family still lives there. Obviously they’re not in favor.
One has a son in the US, wants to come here too. Speaks much more freely when visiting than on the phone, definitely hates Putin and the war. Sadly she seems to have few people in Russia that she can associate with and has cut off relations with many over this.
One of those many is also a friend of my wife — fully brainwashed and supports it all. They’ve nearly lost all contact because conversations always end heated — after a lifetime of being best friends.
One is very wealthy and benefits from the corruption, basically has the attitude of “as long as I don’t lose my stuff” — their relationship is also severely strained. Her husband has a Ukrainian last name, but has always lived in Russia.
We have a Ukraine flag bumper sticker on our car. We frequently get thumbs up and friendly waves from truck drivers with Ukrainian names on their truck door, many from Canada that are driving through (we live near the border), but one of our neighbors who was born in a Russian speaking part of Ukraine hates it and is very much in favor of Russia taking the territory. That makes no sense to me.
A bunch of anecdotes don’t add up to data, but maybe give you some kind of answer.
Entertaining companion for my bus ride home - thank you!