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FRENCH:    “T. F. P. / Travail, Famille, Patrie”  §

FRENCH:  “Révolution c’est l’ opium des intellectuelles...” §§

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 ;

§§ )   “Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals...”  —  Popular Post-May ’68 Situationist graffito that sprayed its way across European & US campuses, found its way into Lindsay Anderson’s O LUCKY MAN!  ;

§§§ )  “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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