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50 Hilarious Pics And Memes That Perfectly Sum Up Growing Up And Living In Eastern Europe
Interview
Every region on Earth has its own distinct customs and culture. And as time marches on and the world becomes more and more globalized, this way of life changes, and some are left feeling nostalgic for the recent past.
The ‘Scenic Depictions of Slavic Life’ Facebook page is a corner of the internet that shares memes and pics about Slavic day-to-day life, centered around so-called Gopnik culture, the post-Soviet era, and spending time shelling peas with grandma, surrounded by countless wall rugs. Scroll down to check out some of the most amusing and confusing pics that were featured, and don’t forget to upvote your fave ones.
Bored Panda got in touch with Matei Tabacu, the founder of 'Scenic Depiction of Slavic Life,' the offshoot of his original and immensely popular 'Squatting Slavs in Tracksuits' social media project. He was kind enough to tell us all about the history of the entire project, and why Slavic memes are such a big hit on the internet. Read on for the full interview.
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Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago (edited)
This, and a lot of other seemingly mundane things, should be.
LittleWombat 2 years ago
All these great things and more taught by parents and grandparents passing down lessons that aren't from school ❤
Kobe (she) 2 years ago
Yep, learn the school stuff at school and the home stuff at home. There is already so much they need to study at school. We can't make schools responsible for all the things kids need to know.
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Datsuyama 2 years ago
Perhaps an unpopular opinion but this should be taught at home, by parents. School isn't and shouldn't be responsible for every lesson in life.
Mia Black 2 years ago
But in my opinion school should try to educate you to a point where you start your adult life with the important basics. Math and language but also skills like cooking, cleaning (can be combined with chemic class), how to search for an apartment and so on. Because one: parents aren't always there to teach the kids because of reasons and even if, it's not sure they would or can teach it. And second: we live in a society, so everyone has to deal with the people going from school (and we are paying for schools - why should they not train Young adults to be as capable as possible for the daily life? ) There are tought less important things like calculation the sinus curve which is only a thing if you later work in a field where your bed it and why should every other pupil have to learn about this. Let the people learn this, if they need it for their job. But to know how to live a daily adult life is very important for everyone
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Lara Verne 2 years ago (edited)
Yes, and some schools actually teach it. We were taught basic cooking, sewing, woodworking and even pottery. As a kids, we were taught how to recognize edible plants and mushrooms.
Organized Chaos 2 years ago
Next year, at my high school, they are cancelling our culinary and foods classes. For unknown reasons.
WFH Forever 2 years ago
$$$$ is the reason. It's not like they could cut the football team or anything.
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David 2 years ago
You need to lower the bar. Just teaching young people how to cook meals from grocery store ingredients would be an upgrade. For too many everything is door dash / uber eats / drive through and then they wonder why food is expensive. Which it is, TBH, but it's not quite as expensive when you don't pay someone else to cook it and deliver it. TLDR: You can do a LOT with a good pressure canner and a dehydrator.. A chest freezer is great too.
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Iampenny 2 years ago
Disappointingly true. Slavic countries don't get the recognition they deserve. I've been lucky to have visited quite a few of them, and they are stunningly beautiful.
Arian Arian 2 years ago
A lot of provincial Russian towns look exactly like the second photo.
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Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
Slavic countries are beautiful but let’s not act as if some parts of them aren’t depressing. Like most countries there are beautiful places and depressed places.
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
Let's not forget made-up gibberish used to depict Slavic languages (in case Goran Višnjić or Rade Šerbedžija weren't available for casting :D)
Monday 2 years ago
Off topic but I will watch anything with Goran Višnjić
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Eva Verde 2 years ago
My British boyfriend went to my home city with me (Wrocław). He admitted he wasn't expecting it to be so much better than many British cities, modern, clean, with plenty of green spaces, good public transport, restaurants etc.
Ma Fra 2 years ago
I went to Prague and I was stunned by how modern and clean the city was. Way more than Western Europe.But what astonished me even more was how well behaved people are. Not that I thought that they weren't, but seeing people get up from the first seats on public transport, to sit in the next seats, so an elderly doesn't have to walk more than necessary ... I never saw that in Western Europe. And I'm not talking about reserved seats. But there are so many other examples of things that once were basic education, but nowadays are very rare and there it still happens on a daily basis.
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The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
Beautiful Slavic cities are VERY frequently highlighted in American movies. It's just they're always presented as OTHER cities. (Prague, for instance, is often used as a stand-in for Paris.) But the pictures following this look way more like bottom pic than the top pic.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago (edited)
Both are true, slavic countries have some beautiful old buildings, but the blocs do exist, and some of them are like that, but from what I've seen, many people do try to make the best out of them and tidy them up etc. But it's a relic of the darker past of the Soviet Union. Besides, they're no more "scruffy" than some of the council estates you see in more deprived areas of the UK. Eastern Europe is just as beautiful as the rest of Europe and we need to stop pretending it isn't
Arian Arian 2 years ago
Try being an African but with the temperature around minus 15 C for half a year )
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Libstak 2 years ago (edited)
Had a Russian Blue named Mishka many years ago. I love you Mishy wherever you are over that rainbow bridge
pink_panda 2 years ago
Hope your Mishka is hanging out with my Khoshekh and Mimi over there.
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sturmwesen 2 years ago
Sure it is. It's half in europe and half in asia. Eurasian.
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Robert McKenzie 2 years ago
Not Russian, just unfortunate. Russian Blue cats are absolutely gorgeous.
Matei told Bored Panda that 'Squatting Slavs in Tracksuits' is the first and largest Slavic humor page on Facebook. He started it all the way back in May 2015. He told us that he comes from a Slavic country and couldn't find anything similar on the internet at the time, so he decided to create the first page of its kind.
One year later, he decided to branch out and started a whopping three more Facebook pages: 'Scenic Depiction of Slavic Life,' 'Babushka,' and 'Lada Life.' The 'Lada Life' account, for example, is the largest Lada car page on Facebook, and according to the founder is "even bigger than the official page." And it's true!
However, Matei didn't confine himself just to Facebook. He also created two Instagram accounts, @squattingslavs and @scenic_depictions. All of them have grown organically, through viral content. That and the fact that the memes help "gather people from all over the world" is something that Matei is very proud of.
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Mila Preradović 2 years ago
What, with that number of skewed meat?? Three at best, but it's really far-fetched :D
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EmbersAreOut 2 years ago
Absolutely. We have guests who eat at best a tiny little sandwich and my grandma has prepared a feast!
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Unaffected 2 years ago
And sorry, my house is so messy ( but it's spotless because it was cleaned for hours even days before the guests arrived)
TeenieMeanie 2 years ago
This is all loving mothers . They’re worried you’re too fat (not taking care of yourself) at the same time you aren’t eating enough (not taking care of yourself).
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Robert McKenzie 2 years ago
'If Poland vs Mexico were broadcast on Netflix' There, fixed it for you.
#6
Snoop Dogg After One Week In Bulgaria
ValdaDeDieu 2 years ago (edited)
You, quite possibly, might have a fetish. No judgement, and I upvote. #Resonance
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Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
I thought the same. If Snoop and Jimmy had a baby.
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Just two weeks ago, Matei also opened an online store, the 'Squatting Slavs Store.' "I am the only person who has been and is involved in the entire network, including the store. I have been doing this every day for the past eight years without a break," he told Bored Panda.
"The majority of people who appreciate Slavic memes are from Slavic countries, and they can relate to all the memes I post. The other part of my fans is not from Slavic countries, but they find it to be an interesting trend and lifestyle," Matei said, adding that he personally enjoys memes that "depict the pleasant reality of this culture, the fact that we can solve anything even without money."
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Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
This also works if Britney Spears was 27 years old and from Minnesota.
Zenozenobee 2 years ago
Well, this woman could be on one of my father's family pic from the 80's (in France). All the married women looked like this, same hairdo, same make up, same type of clothes, same size.
Helderder 2 years ago
My mum still looks like this. Only her hair color changed. She was young in the 80s too. She's 60 now. And Dutch.
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QuirkyKittyGirl 2 years ago
Oh, good Lord save us, Cheeto Jesus has a sister!
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Robert T 2 years ago
Just thinking this must be one of my gf's rellies. LOL
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Turnip and a Frog 2 years ago (edited)
Gołąbki. Love them. Recently more and more with tomato sauce. But prefer those made with the savoy cabbage.
Janos Schumacher 2 years ago
Sarma. Cooked with lots of sauerkraut. Served with extra kraut straight from the jar. Pickled sweet peppers on the side. Sataraš would not be remiss. Pogača on the table, as always. Sljivovic for the digestion.
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But it must be sauerkraut (sour cabbage). If not available, any leaf would to, but it doesn't taste good.
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De Niro From Serbia
ValdaDeDieu 2 years ago
Gravitas in every language -- just like Samuel Jackson...
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According to Matei, this mastery of DIY is where the 'Slavic Science' section comes from. "Even if something breaks, we can fix it with whatever we have at home," he said.
"Other memes depict the fact that even if some of us start making money and drive more expensive cars, we still eat 'burek' and 'cevapi' and other traditional Slavic dishes. I like most of the Slavic memes because we are naturally funny and make jokes about everything that happens to us," he told Bored Panda.
The ‘Scenic Depictions of Slavic Life’ Facebook page is very widely known. At the time of writing it had over 547k likes and more than 567k followers. The curators invite people to “dance in the rain, squat in the rain, live Slavic,” referring to the extremely well-known Squatting Slav meme.
The account “is a satellite of the” 'Squatting Slavs in Tracksuits' network. The original SSIT page has a whopping 1.3 million followers on Facebook.
#10
Alisa LaVine 2 years ago
When I was in Moscow not long after the USSR fell, I was shocked when I saw the underground subway for the first time. It was winter and snowing so walking into a place filled with color was a vacay for the eyes.
Protagonist 2 years ago
BTW, the Moscow metro is not only beautiful. Part of it also functions as a nuclear bomb shelter.
Jessica Shookhoff 2 years ago
Truth! The DC Metro looks straight out of the Cold War, but less welcoming!
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Slavic Science
XenoMurph 2 years ago
You know how some umbrellas have a curved/hooked handle? Now you know how it's held up. Clenched tight in there.
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PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
First Rule of Engineering: Form Follows Function
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The Squatting Slav meme has been a hallmark of internet culture for over a decade. Know Your Meme notes that the question as to why many Eastern European people stereotypically squat while wearing tracksuits first started appearing in the spotlight in late 2012, with the rise of the r/slavs_squatting subreddit and discussions on the notorious 4chan website. The meme only gained more popularity from then on.
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Jessica Bertram 2 years ago
that poor woman. 😢 think about the shîť she's experienced to compel this kind of protection.
Featherking 2 years ago (edited)
Hey man; everybody knows you don’t mess with Slavic grandmas. They’ll f*ck you up, no matter how tough you think you are.
Sue Sanders 2 years ago
No mess with granny. She hit you with the bag for attention, then wallop with the knuckles.
#14
Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
Oh my god that is from his movie “Raising Arizona”! That movie is really funny!
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
WTF RAISINFLG ARIZONA??? What are they teaching you about? How to kidnap a quintuplet if you can't have your own???
Easily Excitable Panda 2 years ago
Holly Hunter, too. That's from the movie "Raising Arizona."
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Lara Verne 2 years ago
Reduce, reuse, recycle, no? These containers are great for food storage.
QuirkyKittyGirl 2 years ago
It reminds me of all the sewing supplies my Mama had stashed in neatly stacked butter cookie tins.
Daycare Attendant Sun 2 years ago
I love saving really good plastic containers from other food and using them for meal preps for work. Perfectly sized.
The Squatting Slav meme’s roots lie in Gopnik culture. One meme, featured on Know Your Meme, describes a Gopnik (the plural being ‘Gopniki’) as “Russian white trash, commonly found on the outskirts of Moscow and in towns throughout.” They stereotypically wear tracksuits and many wear hoods or hats.
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Helena 2 years ago
What western teen is praising communism? Isn't their big beef with unchecked capitalism?
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
Eh, some people really do go overboard and think "I'm living under capitalism, it's bad, so obviously communism must be better" which is a logical but quite wrong assumption to make. Having lived under both I can definitely tell you communism is much, much worse, so in the end it turns out either extreme is bad so it's best to keep in the middle, where you're democratic, you're slightly socialist so you take care of your own people and you keep checks and balances on capitalism lest corporations become more powerful than the state. You know, like most of the EU is doing.
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Full Name 2 years ago
When certain Americans say "Praising communism" that normally means something like "Advocating for a national health service".
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
There's also full blown "tankies" which really do think communism is better despite never having seen it with their own eyes because they were born after the end of the cold war in a country on the western side of the Iron Curtain. And when you try to explain to them that no, communism actually sucked, because you were there and remember it, they look at you like you're an idiot and tell you "that wasn't REAL communism, this time it'll work, you'll see", so the best thing to do then is to simply roll your eyes and walk away.
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Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
Exactly. I see we've been running into the same kinds of people... :D
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Jessica Bertram 2 years ago
i thought immediately of my colleague from Romania. we are both in our mid 40s and she grew up during the breaking of Russian rule and the terrible years that followed. i watched an incredible documentary that she directed me to on Youtube, that showed the political and social fallout from a crumbling system turning overnight into the wild west of democracy, while the major players still had the money and power. damn.
Joe Average 2 years ago
Could you share that documentary with us? I'd like to watch it too.
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YES! My grandma (who lived through and found against communism/socialism in Poland) heard two teenagers saying that they wished the America was communistic, she nearly flipped out of her shoes and marched right over to them to tell them exactly what she thought.
Eva Verde 2 years ago
Now wait... Communism is not bad in theory. We do have to eat the rich. But we need to do it in the right way.
Juririn 2 years ago
A society where EVERYTHING is controlled, supervised and dictated, based on hate ( well, "class hate") not bad, eh? 🙄
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Perfection
Sue Sanders 2 years ago
This BP series reminds me WAY too much of where my genes come from - and it ain't Levi.
#18
Balkan Stonehenge. Picklehenge
Turnip and a Frog 2 years ago
Sour cucumbers are way better for me. Plus, they cure everything, from thirst through sweet cravings to a hangover.
Kristina Pelėda 2 years ago (edited)
Me too. I hate pickles, but sour cucumbers are something!
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It is a pejorative term used in Russia and elsewhere “to refer to aggressive young men of lower-class suburbs coming from families of poor education and income.” Gopniks are quite similar to British Chavs. Urban Dictionary adds that Gopniks drink outdoors and can engage in petty crime. And the only difference between them and Chavs may be that the former speak Russian.
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, Slavs mainly live in eastern and southeastern Europe. However, they also extend across northern Asia, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Slavs are subdivided into three main groups: East Slavs, West Slavs, and South Slavs. Meanwhile, Slavs can also be subdivided into two main groups based on religion: the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
#19
Wolverine After One Week In Bulgaria
Sue Sanders 2 years ago
He thinks the necklace beautifies him. (Come over here, Dude; I'll tell you about facial hair.)
#20
Fishing In Poland
D. Pitbull 2 years ago
omg. what... please... someone... what fish is that... that's... dang, congrats, that is a fine catch!
Sue Sanders 2 years ago
My son caught a bigger catfish in Missouri when he was eleven. Had four meals out of it with scraps for the cats.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
cooolll!! I wonder if it is going to be a casino, holiday resort, or mall?
ADJ 2 years ago
It is going to be ruins, because it was built totally disregarding the law, and on the protected natural preserve land. Look for "stobnica castle". A real shame, exposing how weak and powerless (and stupid and corrupted) is our government and his agencies.
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Jacques-Olivier NICOLAS 2 years ago
In France in Guédelon, there is a castle under construction, and they did reverse engineering to do it with the techniques of the Middle Ages. Respect
Eva Verde 2 years ago
Built illegally. Shows how corrupted polish government is, if you have money and friends you can get away with a LOT.
Edyta 2 years ago
* with everything basically and the people will still vote for you -_-'
Load More Replies... Lisa Simpson 2 years ago
Our 'progressive' government allowed investors to build a fancy apartment complex right next to Kalemegdan fortress in Belgrade, and it sucks...But those guys won!
Sue Sanders 2 years ago
My Polish-Russian family LOVED Polish jokes. What does that tell me about them?
East Slavs include Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarussians. West Slavs are comprised of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Wends. While South Slavs are made up of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Slovenes, Macedonians, and Montenegrins. Encyclopædia Britannica notes that Bulgarians are often designated as South Slavs, as they speak a Slavic language, even though they’re of mixed origin like the Hungarians.
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Zenozenobee 2 years ago
My home town (Le Havre, Normandy, France, so definitivly west) have been bombed by the British at the end of WW2. It was rebuilt in that "square Tom style". Seems hard to go baroque when you need full towns to be built asap.
Load More Replies... Gøøse 2 years ago
Brutalism is a very interesting and thought provoking architecture style, I don't know why y'all are bashing it.
random username 2 years ago
The Eastern European architecture before the Cold War was more like some fancy beautiful buildings in the midst of shanty towns without running water and sewage. Commie blocks may not be very pretty, but that's what you get when you want to build as much housing as possible.
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Małgorzata Nowaczyk 2 years ago
forget about door frame or any hard surface
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cerinamroth 2 years ago
I've lived all over Europe and all I can say is where there's a will, there's a way! I've seen all of the "Balkan" options used in Germany, too!
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Sue Sanders 2 years ago
Don't know anyone I'd want to be that close to for - say - half a block.
Lori Gibbs 2 years ago
Last time I hit a pebble riding one of those, it was the very last time I did that!
Bobert Robertson 2 years ago
These are so fun to ride. If you pump them up to the right height you can drift on them
The Eastern Orthodox Church includes Russians, most Ukrainians, most Belarussians, most Bulgarians, Serbs, and Macedonians. While the Slavs associated with the Roman Catholic Church include Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Croats, Slovenes, some Ukrainians, and some Belarussians.
#25
ScarletRos 2 years ago
My Swiss friend. Always wore shorts, even in winter (mind you it was Australia so there wasn’t snow).
Stary_cat 2 years ago
Yeah winters basically summer here, except right now we’re in a cold snap it’s like 12 degrees Celsius Im freezing but I’m still in shorts
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Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago
We see this in the U.S. too. It's the same person that wears a hoodie with the hood up on a 100 degree summer day.
bears. beets. battlestar galactica. 2 years ago
i get wearing shorts even if it's cold, i'm guilty of doing it... but how tf do people wear hoodies and sweats in the heat without collapsing from heat exhaustion?!
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Trophy Husband 2 years ago
I live in Florida and I never wear a jacket... I wish I had a reason to wear a jacket...
QuirkyKittyGirl 2 years ago
Wyoming, where we have whole weeks where there is frost on everything in the morning, but by 1:30 or so, the A/C comes on! I see people (mostly teenaged boys) dressed like this pretty much all winter, except for the blizzard days.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
drop a beer can off your table, it rolls to the Belgian side... f**k I think we just invaded belgium
Frank 2 years ago
It's an aggression sending Dutch "beer" to Belgium. (It's impossible to find Amstel or Heineken in Belgium, although the Heineken company is the second biggest brewer in the country).
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Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
Well, our border would also be like that if we were in Schengen, but it turns out that even though we satisfied all conditions, Austria is still vetoing our accession for the sole reason of cozying up to their local racists...
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Johny Depp After Two Months In Czech
WFH Forever 2 years ago
They probably originally wrote Czechoslovakia and someone realized that was wrong so they deleted some letters?
Load More Replies... Sue Sanders 2 years ago
He'd be great on whatever planet he's on. Nice Johny. You can hang out in my hovel.
Diggit Magazine notes that the popularity of the Squatting Slav meme has reminded many people of how similar their cultural backgrounds, and childhoods, are. “How they all have ‘babushkas’ (grandmothers) who make ‘kompots’ (a non-alcoholic sweet beverage made from fruit) and how they are all very used to squatting.”
However, the meme’s popularity has grown overseas, too, especially in Canada, the UK, and the US.
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T. 2 years ago
They also sell that in a café in Zurich: The existentialist's breakfast - A strong coffee and a filterless Gauloise (cigarette brand).
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One Of Kherson's Liberators 🇺🇦 ❤️
QuirkyKittyGirl 2 years ago
When I first glanced at it, I thought the end of her scarf was the cat's tail. Took me a couple of seconds. ::Facepalm::
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ЛеснойКороль(ForestKing)H/H 2 years ago
i have a trick that lets me survive a month on 50 € :))
Martin König 2 years ago
For that money he could ride in a gold coach here. For two months. Poor us.
Olga Sushko 2 years ago
Minimum monthly wage in Ukraine is currently €170. A lot of people live like this.
Both the SDSL and SSIT pages sell Slavic meme-related merchandise. Many of the products clearly support Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia in February 2022. However, some of the merch appears to feature the hammer and sickle device used by the Soviet Union. This is something that many people whose families suffered under the regime might find to be in poor taste. However, the founder of the SDSL and SSIT projects primarily seems to focus on humor, lightheartedness, and chuckling at stereotypes.
#31
Martin König 2 years ago
Totally. Just to correct: The American "brew" by no means could be called "beer". P**s, maybe.
#32
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
It's not censored, the e didn't fit in the reserved space.
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Gmaddles 2 years ago
I'd never even heard of that. Learn something new every damn day
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Landithy 2 years ago (edited)
Yeah nah. It was just relentless guilt-tripping instead of a flip-flop.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
shall we troll them? "Serbian and Montenegran are identical."
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Sue Sanders 2 years ago
I won't be a jerk and explain the difference - except now the difference is creeping out of my brain and I have to confess that the difference makes little difference. Well, it does - but it doesn't.
CJay M 2 years ago
NAAAAAAH westerner wrote this fr Polish vs Czech vs Serbian is as big of a difference as English v Spanish... speaking from experience
Kellie Whyte 2 years ago
LOL but what about Croatian vs Serbian vs Bosnian? 🤣😂
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Chandler Bing After 6 Months In Hungary
Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
It should be titled Eastern European instead of Slavic life
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Kharyss 2 years ago
Chain smoking, heavy drinking and pure lard running through your veins will do that to you.
Kharyss 2 years ago
And before anyone comments on my use of social stereotypes, I’m actually Hungarian. There’s a reason why their life expectancy is so low.
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MongoMarcia 2 years ago
That's actually what he looks like in the USA. Are we sure that's not him?
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Growing Up In A Remote Industrial Town, That Felt Very Relatable 😁
UltimateSwiftie 2 years ago
This happens everywhere. " I DON'T WANNA HEAR YA LIFE STORY, MISTER!!!!!"
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Isabela Cincu 2 years ago
We re not slavic but the picture is 100% accurate
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#38
Slav Soccer Games
#39
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Yes! My sister once went on a Rover's scout camp called the 'Noot noot moot' it was awesome :)
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Gosiaatje 2 years ago
I'm Polish and I do confirm that of all Slavic languages Czech and Slovak sound the most hilarious 😁
Mila Preradović 2 years ago (edited)
I (Croat) can understand most of Slovak, a little bit of Czech and not a single word of Pollish 😅I also understand Bulgarian rather well but couldn't tell Russian from Ukranian if my life depended on it😅
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Sue Sanders 2 years ago
They're all funny. And try to listen to a conversation when you're 12 years old at a Polish Russian dinner table.
#41
stupidMonkey 2 years ago
Hey now. Don't be mean to fried bologna. It tastes a lot better than you might think.
Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago
Slice of melting heavily processed American Cheese Product and some mustard. Yum.
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EmbersAreOut 2 years ago
Same with regular ham! Pan fried on a tomato and chive sandwich. absolute heaven
David 2 years ago
old man me giggling at the memory of "baloney boobies". You'd fry up a couple of slices and they would dome up in the pan like .. well.. you know. Old man me also remembering that we used to eat a lot of baloney and hot does because back then it was cheap meat and we were poor.
Sassawrasse 2 years ago
Just cut four slits around the outside, it'll allow it to shrink without boobling. Perfectly fried bloney.
Spanish Cat 2 years ago
I loved bologna so much as a kid and still do, sadly, in spain, it's more expensive than in Ukraine
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Big Biznis Here
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You Are Not A Real Slav If Your Refrigerator Doesn't Look Like That
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
I had to buy a matching freezer to stand next to the refrigerator because I ran out of room on the latter :D
#45
Poland, Łódź
Tiffany Munday 2 years ago
Considering how thick those mats are I betcha it is not only warm but waterproof as well !!
#46
Bulgaria
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
He needs cash to buy coffee and cigarettes in the hospital because often they do not accept cards. Don't worry, medical bill is covered.
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The Most Slavic Photo In History
Tiffany Munday 2 years ago
Okay, no matter where it is ….I would LOVE to wake up to that view everyday.
Sue Sanders 2 years ago
Top floor with a view of the mountain close-up. That IS a mountain, isn't it?
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
Why not? Europe's highest peak is 5.642 m. And it is in Russia, so, also Slavic.
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Real Slavic Minimalism
Iampenny 2 years ago
My bathroom in Germany a few years ago looked exactly like this (and no, I'm not talking about the East of Germany)
Katrin Krueger 2 years ago
Bei mir auch. Normale Genossenschaftswohnung! :)
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Biofish23 2 years ago
American bathrooms generally have all the pipes hidden behind the walls.
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Sue Sanders 2 years ago (edited)
I'm Slavic, but my legs aren't half that long. I think. BTW they need to caulk the tile. And work in a little more upkeep.
#49
Slovakian Hospital Breakfast At Its Finest
Tiffany Munday 2 years ago
I would be more than happy to get that for a hospital (anytime) meal ! At least it would have some flavour..
Samantha Power 2 years ago
True indeed. I got 2 slices of bread and jam in Hospital, this looks much better.
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Attila Ángyán 2 years ago
Never understood why is this bad... you are in a freakin hospital to recover whatever illness you have, not in a hotel or something. It's not prohibited to bring your own food if you are picky, otherwise just eat it and you will be ok for the time you stay in there.
#50
Sole Villegas 2 years ago
Hey! We have it here!! (Argentina). Ensalada rusa witch translate to Ruska salata. Always present in Christmas and New Year!
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
"Salată de boeuf" (lit' "Beef salad", where the word for "beef" is inexplicably in French) in Romanian.
#51
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago (edited)
Well, the mountains in the background are the Ciucaș Massif in the Carpathians, and the beer is also named "Ciucaș" after the mountains. These are very well known ads in Romania and there's a whole series of them featuring that guy, his three friends and the deer. At one point they're even driving together in a car, and yes, that includes the deer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UTPhFIMZhM
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Jihana 2 years ago
A few years back there was a Polish tourism ad on German TV: come to Poland, your car is already here.
Rilmar 2 years ago
I'm Polish. My history teacher liked to tell us this one, followed by: come to Germany, your grandmother's china is already there
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In Poland - "Niemiec tylko do kościoła jeździł" - "Car was driven by a german to church only"
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Meanwhile In Ua/Kharkiv
Billie Templeton 2 years ago
That meat and pickles looks amazing!! But it could just be the Adrenal Insufficiency talking
Nikki D 2 years ago
It does look amazing. Or maybe it's the anemia talking
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So... what kind of meat is in that bowl with the pickles ? The herb? It looks so tasty...
Dreaming Spirit 2 years ago (edited)
I'd say it's smoked bacon (Polish: boczek wędzony)https://www.meatthew...en-gesneden.jpg
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#54
#55
#56
Perspective
UltimateSwiftie 2 years ago
Warning, you may feel "slight" tingling due to your room placement. Don't worry you will not die. ( this is a joke please don't downvote)
Gabby Ghoul 2 years ago
It looks more like a fossil fuel power plant to me with the striped smokestacks.
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cerinamroth 2 years ago
We had a Ukrainian refugee stay with us and he said all the smiley people (Here! In Northern Germany!!!!) made him feel a bit uneasy. He said Ukrainians prefer to frown and shout at each other in restaurants. I can confirm this also from Ukrainian family members.
#58
#60
Bulgarian Aesthetic Morning Ritual
#61
Hint: Yugoslavia
Libstak 2 years ago (edited)
OK, so you DO NOT place the Croation Flag and the word Yugoslavia within a thousand miles of each other, ever.
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
I mean, that's the whole joke - "pretend it's 1995" has an entirely different meaning in the Balkans- after all, the middle image is the flag used by Bosnia and Herzegovina between 92 and 98 and of course the red star represents the JNA, the Yugoslav People's Army. Of course, as the history stickler I am I should point out that by 1995 the JNA had been gone for three years and had been replaced by the VRS, the Army of Republika Srpska.
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#62
#63
Serbia
#64
Eastern European Police After After End Of Shift
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
actually those are south african rands, but anyway. same difference. also take bribes.
Monday 2 years ago
I'd argue this is more likely a traffic cop than a regular cop though. More chances for bribes and more people willing to "risk" the bribe.
Load More Replies... Kharyss 2 years ago
Yep. Never really understood when people described the food and goods shortages in Hungary in the 1970’s/80’s until I realised my father had contacts. Everything was black market only.
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
Hah, this happened to me recently - I got in an argument with a guy that said that shortages in Romania during the communism were a myth and that really rubbed me the wrong way because I'm old enough to remember them. So I asked him what his parents were and he got a bit defensive - "my dad was a Securitate (communist secret police) colonel"... Well, that sure explained it mighty quick.
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Deta Rossiter 2 years ago
who ever created this list, is taking a little too much Creative liberty
Jacques-Olivier NICOLAS 2 years ago
And sometimes they stop you for no apparent reason. They are just waiting for you to give something...
#65
Monday 2 years ago
They're waiting for the photographer to hurry up and finish so they can get to drinking and partying with the family.
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cerinamroth 2 years ago
Doesn't look anything like the Polish weddings I've been to. A lot more fun than British, French or German ones in my experience!
Patricia Sørensen 2 years ago
Staged photo taken by an amateur photographer – suddenly everyone forgets how to stand like a human. :D
Load More Replies... Rilmar 2 years ago
I was gonna say "10 years ago", then the realization hit.
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#66
Cristina 2 years ago
No, we don't knock for good luck, we knock to prevent something bad from happening. Like when you see a black cat and you walk 7 steps back.
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Anna Te 2 years ago
Also, if it's REALLY bad, you need to do this on your head> 3 times! Otherwise it doesn't work ;)
Yoyo 2 years ago
In Sweden we say Pepper pepper, knock on wood (if there's no wood to knock on you can always use your own forehead as a joke)
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
We do that in Australia (without the pepper pepper bit) Not seen it for a while though
Load More Replies... Nadine Debard 2 years ago
In France we say 'toucher du bois' (and you touch wood or your head) when somebody says something like 'fortunately (it) didn't happen'. We answer it didn't happen YET and touch wood.
#67
Messi After One Week In Serbia
ЛеснойКороль(ForestKing)H/H 2 years ago
i can’t say i’ve been to serbia, i am just here to hide the body shaming beneath me :/
UltimateSwiftie 2 years ago
can we NOT fat shame here!!! This is a safe place!!!
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#69
Big Biznis Here
Lisa Simpson 2 years ago
Just a regular dude from Serbia. This outfit can be seen everywhere - streets, coffee shops, restaurants, even churches.
cerinamroth 2 years ago
Could also be Albania. The sportswear industry must be booming there.
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Turnip and a Frog 2 years ago
Religion in Poland is used as a tool to win election votes of the hardcore segment of the elderly population, because it's exactly those 5-7% that gives the rightist government the win. The horrifyingly generous social benefits for low-income large families secure the votes of another group of the population, and it has nothing to do with religion. This government is effectiveness of the worst kind.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
I don't think I've ever seen the phrase "horrifyingly generous" before.
Load More Replies... ADJ 2 years ago
Sad but unfortunately true. Good sign is less and less people go to church every year, mostly seniors.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago (edited)
Same issue lots of places, waiting for a lot of crazy people to die of old age.
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#71
Slavspresso!
Monday 2 years ago
What's wrong is it's in the picture and not in my hand!
Load More Replies... D. Pitbull 2 years ago
holy... gawd... that looks like it's comin' out like pudding. Espresso.... pudding? its' like it's... it's trying to climb out of the cup by its own power.
Lisa Simpson 2 years ago
Turkish cofffee...or Greek, or Bosnian, or Serbian. My personal favourite
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#73
Slav Carpet In Bulgarian Train Circa 2003
#74
Room Rental In Slovakia. Absolute Slavic Minimalism
#75
°CORLEONE° 2 years ago
It can be hard at times, but the friendships are much more genuine, and we all laugh and smile together at the pub where it really matters anyways.
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago
Don't confuse "western" with US (depends where though). Don't expect Swiss and German people to be smiling back at random people - or the Finnish.
#76
Slavic Science
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago (edited)
how ? the snow clean the carpet ? (true question, no irony)
Load More Replies... Vera Diblikova 2 years ago
When we had had snow -it worked like a miracle! no chemistry, no electricity, perfect clean.
Starbelly Eleven 2 years ago
It looks like fun! Who doesn't like being out in the snow?
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martymcmatrix 2 years ago
This must be a previously unknown painting by PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER.
#77
Iampenny 2 years ago
Does this not apply to most grandparents? It's definitely true for Irish ones too.
Fabian Bernard 2 years ago
My granma did the same. Polish immigrant in France. Money was hidden under the carpet, on the corner of her room
#78
Lunch With A View
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
Public transport? Check. Structurally safe, affordable-looking housing? Check. Nice food? Check. Beer? Check. What is there not to like?
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#80
Dj Khaled After One Week In Slovakia
Landithy 2 years ago
Reminded of my Serbian-Australian friend from uni: "The word "please" exists in our language, but it's not pronounced." "In Serbia you just walk into a store and say "I want that". In Australia you have to be like "Please it not too much trouble, could I have..." or everybody looks at you like you're an arsehole."
#81
Hungary, Budapest Downtown
#83
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
So isn't this just a hypocritical version of #1?! But Western Europe depicting Slavic countries like this... totally normal and okay.
Kayjunmoon 2 years ago
Actually I don’t find this amusing. This type of stereotyping is not nice.
#84
8 Am Czechia
Blada DeBlejd 2 years ago
Well, where is the problem? I do not see any. Pretty normal to drink on train, isn't it? And for many Czechs beer is just a soda 😄
cerinamroth 2 years ago
In Germany, it's very normal too. A Wegbier (beer for the way home) is very normal.
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Weasel Wise 2 years ago (edited)
Why is this sad? Two adults doing whatever they want to do without hurting anyone. What's sad is being brainwashed into believing that hypocritical, elderly, white men are to control (often through shame and fear) what other adults do with their time/money/body/life and convincing the sheeples into helping them discriminate.
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#86
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
You know, I'm Romanian and we have a Latin language not Slavic, but I understood exactly what you wrote there because we have the same word, "zidar" for "construction worker" (more specifically the guy that builds masonry), which is definitely a loanword from Old Slavic in our language (I bet there were some skilled stonemasons from the Dalmatian Coast building some castles in Wallachia, Moldavia and/or Transylvania at one point). And of course, "sandwich" is "sandviș", where I have an inkling that "ș" and "č" are pronounced exactly the same, which is "sch" in English...
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#87
When Slav Wants To Have A Better View.. He Cuts The Hole On His Balcony! Split, Croatia
UltimateSwiftie 2 years ago
yup this could cause the corner of the building to buckle under the weight. Also those are steel wires in there sooo.... you won't have the nicest view for the rest of your stay
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STress 2 years ago
Closer view, 106 Vukovarska St. Split 21000, Croatia vukovarska...8e24fd.jpg 
#88
Turning The TV On In Hungary
Lisa Simpson 2 years ago
Hungaria is not Slavic, but nevermind, respect to Hide the pain Harold
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
Real name András István Arató, a retired electrical engineer. And yes, in recent years he did adverts for Coca Cola in Hungary and he was also on the Hungarian edition of Masked Singer.
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Salt Bae After A Week In Serbia
Attila Ángyán 2 years ago
That's a hungarian guy, a gipsy from the town of Gyöngyös. YouTube has it if you search "Mi folyik itt Gyöngyösön"
#90
KM 2 years ago
Did anyone else's parents made them crawl in to spread the blanket corners evenly?
Lucky squirrel 2 years ago
I think my aunt still has them somewhere. My God those things were so heavy, you literally couldn't move.
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
Weighted blankets before they were a thing...
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Mila Preradović 2 years ago
No it's a duvet cover :) heavily used in the Balkans in 70's and 80's.
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Teaching Maths In Hungary
Greengrass 2 years ago
Cant help feeling these disparaging generalisations about the primative balkans come largely from inhabitants of the US which we all know (because you constantly tell us) is the greatest nation on Earth. Take a look at yourselves please?
Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago
You call this disparaging? Go back and look at the umpteen jillion disparaging U.S. Posts. I'll admit to the U.S. being a leader. In being disparaged!
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#92
If Sweden Was In Eastern Europe
#93
Vin Diesel After A Month In Bulgaria
#94
Thor After A Week In Bulgaria
#95
Slavic Bride’s Father At 2pm
#96
Silvester Stallone 1 Year In Bulgaria
#97
#99
Slavic Clothing Booth
Piper 2 years ago
It’s almost like humans are humans no matter what country l 😀
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Libstak 2 years ago
Ahaha my mum did this to me too many times, in Melbourne Aust, Slovenian, Croatian heritage. I never told my school friends, too embarrassing.
WeatheredRobot 2 years ago
There is sound science behind why cabbage has really good anti inflammatory properties. I too thought my mother was a mad woman.. but I actually read up about as adult and realised it was legit. Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.846830/full#:~:text=Crushed%20cabbage%20leaves%20are%20one,sprains%2C%20mastitis%20or%20gastrointestinal%20problems.
Libstak 2 years ago
They are supposed to suck fever and infection out of you. Any kind of swelling, cabbage. High temp, cabbage. Red skin or infection, cabbage.
Load More Replies... B-b-bird 2 years ago
Omg till now I sometimes hear from relatives “just put a cabbage leaf on knee, joint pain will pass”. Seriously ppl, go to doctor, we are in Europe, we can afford it 😂
Mila Preradović 2 years ago (edited)
No need to see a doctor, even WebMD recommends cabbage :D :D https://www.webmd.com/diet/what-to-know-about-cabbage-leaves-for-mastitis
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Mila Preradović 2 years ago
https://www.webmd.com/diet/what-to-know-about-cabbage-leaves-for-mastitis Applicable to other similar conditions as well
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Real Slav In Stress Situation
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
This looks more "going across the border and can bring max 10 cigarette boxes but if I open every one of them maybe I can bring more" than a stress situation. (Don't ask how I know).
#102
Bulgaria
Jacques-Olivier NICOLAS 2 years ago
This is actually not wine, this is more likely plum alcohol, often between 30 and 50 degrees
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🥺 Yugonostalgia
°CORLEONE° 2 years ago
Just want to clarify that YU is a movie about the experiences and adventures of three "thirty-something" buddies who involuntarily find themselves caught up in civil unrest.
#104
Vegeta After 3 Weeks In Serbia
#105
Guess The Country!
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
yeah but they keep thinking hungary is slavic in this thread as well.
Load More Replies... Jacques-Olivier NICOLAS 2 years ago
The Romanian language is closer to Spanish than to Russian.
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
Correct, but we do have enough Slavic influences from the fact 3/4 of our neighbors are Slavic (Moldova doesn't count, they're literally our brothers and sisters). For example, our main word for "sky" is "cer", from Latin, "caelum", but we also have the synonym "văzduh", from proto-Slavic, "vŭzduhŭ". So for any primary Latin word, there is usually a secondary Slavic one as well. Oh and we used the Cyrillic alphabet until 1862? And we got it before the Russians did and straight from the source, because at the time it was invented, back in the 9th century in what is now Veliki Preslav, in Bulgaria, proto-Wallachia was part of the same country, the First Bulgarian Empire, since the Bulgarians had managed to conquer all of the neighboring peoples. Of course, this state of affairs would not last and by the 10th century the Bulgarians were themselves conquered by the Byzantines and the lands north of the Danube by the Pechenegs and then the Cumans, but that's a story for another time...
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Big Biznis Here!
#107
Add New Image
What do you think ?
ЛеснойКороль(ForestKing)H/H 2 years ago
i read this while eating buterbrod and listening to hardbass to get the full experience, did not disappoint
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
If you're not wearing ADIDAS tracksuit, are you even alive?
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Trevor Nicholson 2 years ago
I was on the train in Slovakia, returning to Bratislava from Kosice, and some local hockey fans came into my train cabin, saw that I was Canadian, started asking me things about Canada and hockey in their not-bad English, and then insisted that I take a drink from their bottle of vodka. Sometimes I forget this was real because it was so chaotic.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
A pan-Slavic thread just hits wrong when one Slavic nation is brutally destroying another, insisting on the right to do so based on their common Slavic "identity."
Weasel Wise 2 years ago (edited)
Absolutely! All Slavic countries should not giggle and share a moment based on their similarities and differences. It's much better in times of war to solely focus on that one terrifying reality and grow in their shared depression and hatred for an entire country that's under the control of a psychopath. (My gift for sarcasm helps to keep me from screaming and crying simultaneously.)
Load More Replies... Weasel Wise 2 years ago
You coulda added more anti-US sentiments in the comments, if that's the spark that makes you smile? Too much focus on the quarkiness of Slavs without that dash of US hatred makes for less fun times. ☹️🤣
Load More Replies... ЛеснойКороль(ForestKing)H/H 2 years ago
i read this while eating buterbrod and listening to hardbass to get the full experience, did not disappoint
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
If you're not wearing ADIDAS tracksuit, are you even alive?
Load More Replies... Trevor Nicholson 2 years ago
I was on the train in Slovakia, returning to Bratislava from Kosice, and some local hockey fans came into my train cabin, saw that I was Canadian, started asking me things about Canada and hockey in their not-bad English, and then insisted that I take a drink from their bottle of vodka. Sometimes I forget this was real because it was so chaotic.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
A pan-Slavic thread just hits wrong when one Slavic nation is brutally destroying another, insisting on the right to do so based on their common Slavic "identity."
Weasel Wise 2 years ago (edited)
Absolutely! All Slavic countries should not giggle and share a moment based on their similarities and differences. It's much better in times of war to solely focus on that one terrifying reality and grow in their shared depression and hatred for an entire country that's under the control of a psychopath. (My gift for sarcasm helps to keep me from screaming and crying simultaneously.)
Load More Replies... Weasel Wise 2 years ago
You coulda added more anti-US sentiments in the comments, if that's the spark that makes you smile? Too much focus on the quarkiness of Slavs without that dash of US hatred makes for less fun times. ☹️🤣
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