Swobodin v Brně

“How did the poet Mayakovsky die?”
“Suicide.”
“What were his last words?”
“‘Don’t shoot, comrades!’”

- Why did Brezhnev kill all Kremlin’s pigeons?
- Because they did “Khru… Khru…”

History is not honest at all! When powerful people write History, it becomes subjective and non-sense!
We all know that Vladimir Lenin was with Trotsky against Stalin and has criticized Stalin many times especially after the conflict between Lenin’s wife Nadia Krupskaja and Josip Stalin in 1922~1924. However, in Lenin’s works published in the 70’s […]

Pouvez-vous être plus geek que Sergueï ?
Voici quelques extraits :
 
Mais il s’est avéré étranger, car il nous salua avec les mots “Hi, people !”. Et alors je compris que Sergueï parlait anglais couramment, parce qu’il discuta facilement avec cet étranger pendant au moins cinq minutes. Ils parlaient d’un “rules” quelconque qui était “complètement cool” […]

Once I went to the gocer and he gave me the spice into a paper, written in French.
Curiously, I opened the paper and found out it’s a page of the book “Cancer Ward”, whose the author is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
For the information, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is a Russian novelist born in 1918, a war decorated […]

Поверь: когда слепней и комаров
Вокруг тебя летает рой журнальный,
Не рассуждай, не трать учтивых слов,
Не возражай на писк и шум нахальный:
Ни логикой, ни вкусом, милый друг,
Никак нельзя смирить их род упрямый.
Сердиться грех - но замахнись и вдруг
Прихлопни их проворной эпиграмой.
Александр Пушкин
 
Translation (Thanks Aygul!)
 
Believe: when flies and mosquitoes
around you fly in crowd everyday,
dont think, dont waste […]

Если крикнет рать святая:
“Кинь ты Русь, Живи в раю!”-
Я скажу: “Не надо рая,
Дайте родину мою”.
Сергей Есенин

 
If a horde of priests shout:
“Throw Russia, Live in paradise!”
I will say: “No need to paradise,
Give me my patry”.

Serguej Essenin

Ivan IV (August 25, 1530 – March 18, 1584) was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title of tsar. His long reign saw the conquest of Tartary and Siberia and subsequent transformation of Russia into a multiethnic and multiconfessional state.
Du to his exploits, Ivan was called Groznyj(Гро́зный) which was been wrongly […]

A man with one watch knows what time it is.
A man with two watches is never quite sure.
 
1. Everything depends.
2. Nothing is always.
3. Everything is sometimes.
 
“World conquerors sometimes become fools, but fools never become world conquerors.”
 
Жизнь прожить — не поле перейти
[Life’s a bitch.]
[Well, okay. lit., to live through life is not as simple […]

In the 1930s Paul Keres (1916-1975) of Estonia emerged as one of the top chessplayers in the world. When Germany invaded Estonia in 1939, Keres was asked to participate in chess tournaments for Nazi propaganda.
Once Estonia was “liberated” and became a Soviet republic, the authorities accepted that he come back to the USSR, providing […]

I always wondered why did the Nazi army siege Leningrad (St Petersburg) and Stalingrad (Volgograd). Was it because of their strategic sites, or simply because they have been named after the famous communist leaders?
Certainly, Leningrad was the most important city (with Moscow) in the USSR, but why Stalingrad? Why not Kazan, Astrakhan or Gorky) […]