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JHB

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31. "Comrade" is a communist thing. I use "Kremlin Don"...

Reply to William769 (Original post)

Sat May 13, 2017, 07:04 PM

May 2017

The whole "comrade" thing was to remove titles because Communist Party doctrine said that everyone was equal, despite the way the Soviets actually worked.

There's nothing about Trump and and his PutiPals that think anyone else is equal to them. Kremlin Don wants to be a Czar.

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Edited. I give up on translation. [View all] William769 May 2017 OP

Check your Russian unc70 May 2017 #1

I have. William769 May 2017 #4

It's trump as a verb, not the name BainsBane May 2017 #8

Thanks. I guess I'm SOL. William769 May 2017 #12

Товарищ Трамп unc70 May 2017 #10

Looks like "T pawn" to me. Hmmm.. furtheradu May 2017 #26

That looks like it would be pronounced "Tramp" flyingfysh May 2017 #27

Not all languages pronounce their vowels like we do. DFW May 2017 #35

I took three years of Russian flyingfysh May 2017 #38

Трамп BainsBane May 2017 #11

Edited. Thanks. William769 May 2017 #13

NO, keep the first word you originally had BainsBane May 2017 #14

comrade looks right BainsBane May 2017 #5

Whoa. I need to work on my Russian. PsychoBabble May 2017 #2

then there is this translation riversedge May 2017 #6

Watch for perils in literal translations DFW May 2017 #23

True that. Spanish literal translation of Gore's name is lunatica May 2017 #40

hi mate.... riversedge May 2017 #3

... William769 May 2017 #7

That would also pass for "Greetings, comrades" though the Russian "greetings" actually is singular DFW May 2017 #22

maggot MFM008 May 2017 #9

+1. Simple and accurate. BannonsLiver May 2017 #15

Liver! MFM008 May 2017 #20

! northoftheborder May 2017 #28

Trump would more properly translated phonetically. longship May 2017 #16

Since Russian does not have our "short u" sound.... DFW May 2017 #21

I would agree. longship May 2017 #24

Trying to explain vowel sounds to languages that don't have them is awkward. DFW May 2017 #34

I took a year of Russian nearly 5 decades ago longship May 2017 #36

Russians are everywhere these days. It's easier to keep up than it used to be. DFW May 2017 #37

How fun! longship May 2017 #39

But isn't Troomp as in TroompaLoompa more accurate? Phentex May 2017 #41

Feed that into a Google translator DFW May 2017 #42

Deniska Petrov wcmagumba May 2017 #17

comrade scum, comrade lying pervert, comrade asshole.. . . . . niyad May 2017 #18

Comrade Golden Shower lpbk2713 May 2017 #30

darn!!! forgot that one!! niyad May 2017 #43

thats ok--still love yah. riversedge May 2017 #19

Me too, William spiderpig May 2017 #25

It diminishes the importance of the Russian scandal Voltaire2 May 2017 #29

"Comrade" is a communist thing. I use "Kremlin Don"... JHB May 2017 #31

I won't -- he may like the authoritarian Trump, but he is not a communist karynnj May 2017 #32

tzump. trumcccp. or my grandpa would have called him trumpski. pansypoo53219 May 2017 #33