Russian Lessons

[Gingerbaker]

Is it worth getting Russian lessons in case we get occupied?

[jno]

no, just speak English loudly and clearly and they'll soon understand you.

[Hopkirk]

Just take lessons in making Molotov cocktails.

[EdmundD]

My in-laws said when they lived in Russian occupied Hungary you only needed to understand a few Russian phrases to get by:
"Give me you watch"
"I want your food"
Etc

[Khandro]

Нет, вы, наверное, шутите.

Cheers, from Fela Kuti

[ToraToraTora]

Perlease!

[Peter Pedant]

da

[Peter Pedant]

and we have seee above one nyet

[THECORBYLOON]

"Please" is пожалуйста but not a clue about "Perlease"...

[Peter Pedant]

My auld Dad and other POWs ( a lorra other POWs ) started Russian in late 1944 - liberated May 1945

they were pooping themselves a bit like the Ukrainians now about being liberated by the Red Army and going straight into a gulag

[davebro]

Lidl had Russian vodka on sale - I didn't buy it.

[Peter Pedant]

relabelling necessary

zees eez wodka from Warrington

Going back to me auld Dad, there was a secret treaty with Stalin ( yeah uncle Joe that is) that the liberated allied POWs would NOT go to a gulag but would be entrained to Odessa and shipped home

it only made the POWs poop more

ONE camp did it - Arthur Crook's memoirs USP ( unique selling point silly otherwise it is just a journal of - "I spent 5 y in a pow camp"

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My auld Dad gets an honourable mench. The Sappers relay 6 mi of railway in 7 d to get to Odessa ( wow!)

Oh, and THAT was why the allies returned russian nationals back to stalin where they DDDDDIIIIIIIEEEEEEEDDD ( betrayal of Yalta) because if they didnt, the allies feared they wouldnt get their POWs back ( Aug 1945 )

that is not too complex for AB is it?

[chamois]

Yes and JJ Whitley gin available in all good supermarkets is made in Russia. It says so on the bottle. It's permanently off my shopping list for obvious reasons.

[chamois]

I am grateful to Asda for including the information on their shopping website although I have to admit I bought a bottle of the stuff unknowingly about six months ago.

[Hopkirk]

To hit back, I've stopped playing Russian roulette.