Questions For Our Russian Friends

[Licht]

Originally Posted by Rogerbh

Can you tell us non-Russian speakers what this guy was saying? Was he drunk when he agreed to this? Can you tell what he got shot by?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PbRe-ALo5w

Mosco Vito is too categorical. For the most part, the remarks in the video are an untranslatable Russian game of obscene words. Simply put - Russian curses. I think the guys are just kidding. One in a bulletproof jacket. Most likely - they argued whether it would be weak to sustain a shot. By the way, I am not sure whether the gun is traumatic. Of course, it's better not to do that. If they were drunk, I think that guy would have been shot from a tank or easel machine gun. How do you like it, for example. Coaching anti-terrorist special forces - most likely it is the Alpha or Vympel group. There is a real fighting weapon here. So that. This is not Sparta. This is Russia, Karl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI01qKAqYts

[Licht]

Originally Posted by KissArmy

In general, do Russian women age well? I see pictures of beautiful Russian girls, but all the pictures I see of older Russian women show them to be short, squat, scarf-wearing hausfraus...

Well what can I say? Called - find 10 differences. (photo below) ... Old people are the same everywhere. Why do we have so many grandmothers on benches in headscarves? The current generation of old men comes from the outskirts of big cities. Children of Soviet urbanization. Many of them are village people. Honestly - I can not stand women over 60, trying to look younger. Overuse of cosmetics. First, it's funny. Second, stupid and thirdly disgusting. So the English queen understands this. Russian style.
from Russia: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...txsXE0DGw6InSK
From GB:
http://www.bagnet.org/storage/18/21/...64af58df47.jpg
From another Galactic :
https://s7.cdn.teleprogramma.pro/wp-...5add5c54c2.jpg
But. If our grannies walked the streets like that. I would set my tame bear on them.
https://cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/2...gecalnjsly.jpg

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by Mosco Vito

Such people move to the countryside-to remote abandoned villages. Sometimes such actions are motivated by religious beliefs, both Christian and pagan.

Russian pagans?

Is that a big thing? Like Wiccans or Odinists? What's the Russian equivalent?

[Mosco Vito]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

Russian pagans?

Is that a big thing? Like Wiccans or Odinists? What's the Russian equivalent?

Wicca and odinism have a clear ideology, which can not be said about Russian paganism. Under the name "paganism" in Russia there are various ideological groups:

1) Groups focusing on ancient Slavic paganism;

2) Groups focusing on German-Scandinavian paganism;

3) Groups focusing on Hinduism.

The goals of Russian pagans are also different. Some want "awakening of national consciousness", the second are engaged in folklore reconstruction, for the third priority is the departure from urban civilization and life in the bosom of nature. The most famous right-wing variant of Russian paganism (it's notorious): the set of right-wing criminals, on account of which murder, explosions, arson and maiming, were the pagans. The pillars of the ideology of the ultra-right pagans are:

1) Belief in the" Golden age " of Russia, when the country was was racially homogeneous;

2) Hatred to Christianity. Christianity is considered "ideological sabotage" Jews against Aryans.

My opinion. Paganism in Russia is a game for disappointed people who are looking for oblivion in their fantasies. Some Russian scientists believe that it is more correct to call this phenomenon not "paganism" but "neo-paganism" or "pseudo-paganism", because these ideologies are created artificially and have little in common with the real religion of the ancient Slavs.

[Arturo2nd]

Originally Posted by KissArmy

In general, do Russian women age well? I see pictures of beautiful Russian girls, but all the pictures I see of older Russian women show them to be short, squat, scarf-wearing hausfraus...

Do you think American women age well?

[Reclaimedwg]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-r...-idUSKBN1QR0HI

All them internet restrictions in Russia and yet they can still access YouTube to post countless hours of Russian road rage videos.

How do you explain that?

[Adam West]

Do the Russians still love wrestling like the old Soviet days of Medved, Beloglazov, Dmitriev and all? It's a great sport, but niche here in the U.S.A., but we have had our share of Soviet beaters like Dan Gable, Ben Peterson, John Smith and Kenny Monday.

I've always admired the old Soviet wrestling program.

[Mosco Vito]

Internet restrictions in Russia are reduced to the fact that any website objectionable to the authorities can be blocked without a court decision and prior warning. Anonymizers are also prohibited in Russia. But while the authorities do not have the opportunity for total control over the Internet.

Nowadays wrestling is very popular in the Caucasian part of Russia. I would not say that this sport is interesting for modern Russians.

[Licht]

Originally Posted by Adam West

Do the Russians still love wrestling like the old Soviet days of Medved, Beloglazov, Dmitriev and all? It's a great sport, but niche here in the U.S.A., but we have had our share of Soviet beaters like Dan Gable, Ben Peterson, John Smith and Kenny Monday.

I've always admired the old Soviet wrestling program.

Of course we love wrestling. Undertaker, Triple H, Rock, and of course John Cena . Well, you understand. Well, in fact, wrestling is watched mainly in the Caucasus. I can not say that in Russia there is a craze for this kind of sport (specifically among Russians). In Soviet and Russian times, Dagestanis, Chechens, and Kabardians, Caucasians, were greatest wrestlers.

Now only ... Nikita Kucherov and Alexander Ovechkin. Kucherov and Ovechkin. Ovechkin and Kucherov.

[Arturo2nd]

What about female mud and oil wrestling which are popular fund raisers in American bars?