FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travail, Famille, Patrie” §
GERMAN: Ostalgia / Ostalgie §§
RUSSIAN: Демократия — Dermokratiya §§§
RUSSIAN: “промочи флаг героином и я поссосу!” — “Promoči flag geroinom i ya possosu!” §§§§
§ ) “Work, Family, Fatherland” — Nat’l motto of the Vichy Regime, the fuck-puppet govt. of the Nazi occupation ;
§§ ) “Nostalgia [for the former Communist Eastern Bloc & its safety net]” — [formerly Eastern] Germ. pun & neologism; Etym., Germ, Ost = East [as in Cold War Eastern Europe & Soviet Russia] + (die) Nostalgie = nostalgia
See also “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (Pete Townshend), fr. Who’s Next, MCA records... [“...Meet the New Boss...same as the Old Boss...” ]
See also < http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-07-13/art/ostalgia-new-museum-a-walk-around-the-bloc/ > ;
§§§ ) “Crapocracy” / “Shitocracy” — the post-glastnost world that Yeltsin & Putin have presided over & bequeathed to the Russian peoples ;
§§§§ ) “Soak the flag in heroin & I'll suck on it!” — attrib. to a famous former Commisssioner of Sewers
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