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mitch96

(13,926 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 04:23 PM Mar 2019

learned a new word... Putinversteher....

Russians who love putin and hate the west...
I was watching a program called States of Undress and this episode was about the state of Fashion in St Petersburg Russia. It's a investigative docu-series focuses on the political and social circumstances surrounding fashion around the world.
Holy Shit!! Yes the fashion industry was interesting but the mentality of young Russians of both sexes was a freak out!! Very mysognistic culture, very patriotic/nationalistic homophobic. I did not know that there aren't that many men to go around. Here we have dating sights, there they have marriage sites!! They gave advice on how to "get a real man".. Like.. take your photo while you are ovulating b/c you are more attractive to men at that time!! Holy Shit!! Don't use condoms b/c men don't like them... even if AIDS is increasing in mother russia... uff.....
I can see why rump would love putin cause the whole sense of men macho and misogyny just fit his master plan...
The trailer
https://www.facebook.com/VICELANDTV/videos/russia-states-of-undress-trailer/230156847349574/
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learned a new word... Putinversteher.... (Original Post) mitch96 Mar 2019 OP
Interesting, but that looks/sounds like a German word... Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #1
"looks/sounds like a German word..." mitch96 Mar 2019 #2

Wounded Bear

(58,726 posts)
1. Interesting, but that looks/sounds like a German word...
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 04:38 PM
Mar 2019

they're really good at jamming two or more words together to make new ones.

Hate to see them teach young people that bullshit. When they learn it young, it is very difficult to re-educate them later in life.

mitch96

(13,926 posts)
2. "looks/sounds like a German word..."
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 04:54 PM
Mar 2019

Your right, I just looked it up. It's german for "understander". It seemed very familuar cause my Mom who spoke a few languages would look at me sometimes and say "versteh"?. Also I would hear it in Yiddish when in Brooklyn... Funny. Pro Russians using a german work to talk about putin..
In Russian it should be Putin понимает [pah-nee-MAYET]
DasVidanya boobie
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