How Putin's taste for jail jargon changed Russia

[Uncle Joe]

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His knowledge of “fenya”, as jail jargon is known, proved important to the Kremlin’s faltering war effort in Ukraine last year when he toured dozens of Russian prisons to enlist tens of thousands of inmates.

But the problem with Prigozhin’s profanities – as well as the corrupting influence of fenya and the overtly romanticised lifestyle of career criminals on Russia’s politics, culture and daily life – lies much deeper.

It was Prigozhin’s boss, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who started peppering his speech with salty phrases and fenya idioms since the dawn of his rule 23 years ago.

Long before former US President Donald Trump built his political career on jingoistic, misogynistic and intolerant parlance, Putin did something similar in Russia – with much broader consequences.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/5/31/how-putins-penchant-for-jail-jargon-changed-russia

[MutantAndProud]

1. They imported that to some of the churches here

Fit right in with pro-‘masculinity’ types looking to amp up and meld with evangelicals and other converts who didn’t really like the message of peace