It's great to learn something new about culture of another country.
Internet memes became new form of folklore.
This post will introduce to you most popular memes in russia about russia.
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We love foreign memes, but also have own.
Prime Minister of Russian - Dmitry Medvedev
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Sometimes he "allow" yourself to yourself sleep on the conferences. Last year he went from good picture of a sleeping angel to a engry monster after publishing video on youtube bout his corruption affairs.
A witness from Fryazino - свидетель из Фрязино.
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This meme from 2006. We see a man in a white adidas trousers and black leather jacket. It's a nostalgia about 90s, when "cool" guys wore this.
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Unfortunately he died in 2015.
Lukashenko and potato
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Lukashenko is a president of Belarus from 1994 - 23 years +.
Euro countries called him "Europe's last dictatorship"))
Why do potato? Belarus is assotiated with this vegetable.
If you type on google "картошка и белорусы" (potato an belarusians) then ...
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> HALF of the Belarusians can't live without potato
Many eat potato with bread. Statistic says that one average belarusian eats 860 kg of potato/year. We are #1 in this. Russians eat, fo instance, only 250 kg/year.
Son/daughter of your mom's friend is better
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"А вот у Маши сын женился ..." "А вот у Нины дочь машину ей купила ..."
If your mother is complaing about you, she may say that son/daughter of her friend is more successful than you are - have a car, home, merried, bought a jet plane ...whatever. It's famous manipulation here (Russia, Ukraine and Belarus).
Very bad music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7x75_eIs8
Russian Post - Почта России
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This is the national postal operator of Russia. People joke about this
- It's inefficient postal service
- Postal workers can steal your package, or destroy it.
- Your package could travel to you for months.
