Russian couple: "We love living in Russia, we're happy but..." https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/0e65c850-c730-4f68-8437-44c640184c81 Since Soviet times, Russians have developed a specific form of newspeak which, while maintaining political correctness, allows them to express their grievances and complaints in an allusive manner. Here we have a perfect example in the form of an interview with a married couple who, with broad smiles, utter a series of sentences that actually need to be decoded backwards and every other phrase: ‘We like everything, we are happy to live in Russia! Well, we are a little worried about the war, but otherwise everything is fine! We worry about our children because they will grow up, but other than that, it's great! It's true that we don't have gas or sewage, and we don't really know who can do anything about it, but other than that, it's very good here!’ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:19:09 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.echelon.pl Russian couple: "We love living in Russia, we're happy but..." https://video.echelon.pl/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/0e65c850-c730-4f68-8437-44c640184c81 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.echelon.pl/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder. <![CDATA[Russian couple: "We love living in Russia, we're happy but..." - Searge :fedora:]]> https://video.echelon.pl/w/2M7LRgcgXfM61JSzEgi52x;threadId=459 https://video.echelon.pl/w/2M7LRgcgXfM61JSzEgi52x;threadId=459 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:00:27 GMT @kravietz „a perfect example in the russian newspeak” 💯😔

It also reminds me of Samuel Delany's Babel-17. Especially if you haven't crossed paths with carriers of this thought virus for a long time.

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