No Dude – The Russians Are Saying Theyâre Sorry!
This is a reply to Adminâs post (thatâs his real name by the way â Klaus Admin) I am sorry to report that my colleagueâs grasp of the Cyrillic alphabet is about at tight as his grip on reality.
As anyone who reads Russian knows, those emails are being sent by the Russian Historical & Cultural Rehabilitation Center. All theyâre trying to do is say: âHey guyniks. Weâre sorry!â
Hereâs a summary of the most common mails youâll receive in your spam folder:
Communism â they want to say theyâre sorry for all the confusion from this loser political philosophy and they feel really bad that the US, Britain and China (only China admits it) have been so badly infected by it and are calling it the Welfare State. (The operative word is âStateâ).
They know that no one listens to them any more but they still feel they have to say this: âCommunism sucks, it always sucked and it will always suck. V.I Lenin was a dumb ass and should never have been let out alone.â
The Cuban Missile Crisis â a large misunderstandingâŚwell, not really. There were missiles but they wouldnâtâve fired anyway. They were filled with excess vodka â the stuff the locals wouldnât drink â and plaster sculptures of Stalin. Theyâre sorry about the scare, and theyâre sorry Khrushchev took his shoe off in the Security Council meeting but heâd been on his feet all day…
The KGB – A lot of people got upset with them because of the KGB but it started out as a harmless prank. Kropotnikâs Gay Bar was the original idea but somehow it got mixed up, maybe because of the tie-in with Lubyanka prison which was just around the block and, well, it got out of hand.
If the CIA hadnât gone nuts and then needed it to keep their own budget alive it wouldâve just faded out. Mea culpa to all those boychiks and girlchiks who got their butts kicked over the years. They wish they could make it up but now itâs a bit lateâŚ
The Gulags â Itâs true they really werenât holiday resorts â that was a fib â but they werenât as bad as they were made out to be. Siberia is stunning and a great place to find your inner selfchik.
Stalin â This should be cool now but they feel they have to keep saying sorry for this guy because theyâre still finding the bodies. Uncle Joe was a toad â okay they admit it. He did more to set Russian culture back 100 years, and bring moustaches really into vogue â than anyone else. Sorry for both those things.
Thatâs the gist of most of the emails â nothing about anyoneâs âequipmentâ, Klaus. I think thatâs your good old fashioned male anxiety showing thruâŚ
Theyâre sending one that apologizes for the Marilyn-Monroe-Meets-The-Pope-In-A-Grain-Elevator jokes but Iâve never heard any of those and probably no one else in the West has either.
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