Neither was Poland, but both were very much in the "2nd sphere", effectively under the control of the USSR. My family had close friends in Czechoslovakia who flat-out were not allowed to travel to the US to visit their family at the time, for example.
Something like this happened to me when I went to Spain, I'm from Mexico and I kept trying to explain to spaniards how we're in north america and not south america.
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 1y
Slavic? : ✅
Behind the iron curtain? : ✅
Close enough
huppakee@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 1y
The east-west divide by the iron curtain is also more recent being the capital of the not-holy not-roman not-an-empire so
artifex@piefed.social · 60 pts · 1y
Geez, it's like you go and get absorbed into one ostensibly socialist authoritarian eurasian empire and it's all anyone can remember.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 21 pts · 1y
What do they say about fucking goats again?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
"Be careful about which end you approach from"? 😛
huppakee@feddit.nl · -9 pts · 1y
Woosh
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
That's not a whoosh, they were making their own joke. Jesus.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 1y
Czechoslovakia was never part of the USSR
artifex@piefed.social · 11 pts · 1y
Neither was Poland, but both were very much in the "2nd sphere", effectively under the control of the USSR. My family had close friends in Czechoslovakia who flat-out were not allowed to travel to the US to visit their family at the time, for example.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
Oh yeah it was very much under USSR control don't get me wrong
j_overgrens@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
It was part of the empire though.
PaulBunyan@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
It bothers me that William Fontaine de La Tour Dauterive, bilingual in English and Louisiana French, isn’t France
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Boomhauer speaks French too, if memory serves
PaulBunyan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
It’s the Louisiana French I mentioned
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Boomhauer speaks Canadian French, I believe; Bill Dauterive speaks Cajun French.
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
"Polish... or Russian?"
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 1y
Whole thing is worth watching honestly. The gold standard for YTP (if there is such a thing).
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
This scene sets up Cotton's best line. I guess this version would be:
"Hey, Cotton, this is _____, he's from Eastern Europe."
"No he ain't! He's, from Prague, aintcha Mr. ______!"
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Cotton's a horrible racist, but at least he knows what ethnicity the people he hates are.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
Why isn't Dale Russia? He's clearly fluent in it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 1y
You, too, can be fluent in Russian if you eat enough of Putin's personal library.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
As a German speaker, A-plus on the dale gribble characterization
jpablo68@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1y
Something like this happened to me when I went to Spain, I'm from Mexico and I kept trying to explain to spaniards how we're in north america and not south america.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
I guess the US is South America to Canada. Except for Alaska.
jpablo68@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 1y
Or to people in Detroit, Canada is South America.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
More East America.
Fleur_@aussie.zone · -2 pts · 1y
Eastern Europe is just the bits occupied by the Soviet union post ww2