Comments by "dvv" (@dvv18) on "Don't Come To Russia In The Spring! 🇷🇺" video.

  1.  @matejkazbunda4769  Nothing to do with the Legion, really — it is rarely mentioned in Russia, it's almost a taboo. It's just when Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka was translated to Russian in late 1920s, it fit well into the Soviet "anti-imperialist" propaganda on the one hand (and, of course, Hašek was a communist and even a Red Army commander for a time), and incidentally, it turned out a good book on the other. The brave soldier became a popular character. But it was back in the good old Soviet times. Right now it's mostly a prop in beer commercials and such. I really doubt Hašek is read as much nowadays.
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  2. They first followed Ataturk's lead and accepted the Latin script, but then a certain mustachioed Georgian decided it didn't look right, so they had to change to Cyrillic.
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  3. Every Czech in the comments: Švejk! Every Russian: Eh… The beer dude…
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  4. And before Ivan Vasilyevich Russia was a paragon of compassion, right.
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  5. Just a beer prop.
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  6. It's not like it's a rule set in stone. People call their friends whatever they like.
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  7. I wonder if you watch Itchy Boots — your fellow Dutch crossed southern Russia on her way from central Asia to Georgia — on her bike. And she's fun to watch, anyway.
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  8. No.
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  9.  @Bearodon  Meh... Chomping Finland and the Baltic provinces off Sweden was good enough for Russia.
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  10.  @Bearodon  Nah, that worked beautifully. And then the area was under Russia for 200 years and then some under the newer management. Not a bad stretch, not at all.
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  11. Do they still talk about Rudolf Abel in New York?
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  12.  @usa-1129  I've just asked couple-three New Yorkers — nobody even knows what I'm talking about. None of them are youtubers, maybe that's the problem.
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