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in reply to a message by Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk
Nah.
It's a common lexicon word in Russian - which, as I remember, you speak Russian fluently so you'll know how weird it'd be to use as a name.
It's also the name of Pravda news (although, IMHO, be careful about throwing aorund the word 'Communist' to describe or discredit Russian fake news in the 21st century) which seriously puts me off.
It's a common lexicon word in Russian - which, as I remember, you speak Russian fluently so you'll know how weird it'd be to use as a name.
It's also the name of Pravda news (although, IMHO, be careful about throwing aorund the word 'Communist' to describe or discredit Russian fake news in the 21st century) which seriously puts me off.
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Pravda.ru is a communist news site. They are literally communist. I wasn't saying to call it Russian fake news, though it is also that too.
Please re-read what I wrote, that is not what I said. I can have a whole discussion about the issues about what modern Russia is and is not, what it is doing, Putin's Russia and its relation to the USSR, the spectre of Communism, how 'Communism' is an emotionally-loaded buzzword that gets wrongly thrown around as a scare/distraction tactic, how it is very strange to call most things in, coming out of, or related to Putin's Russia "Communist" and much more... However, seeing how you have argued with people here before, I don't want to split hairs with you so will not continue this discussion.
Although just to clarify matters, I have ties in, loved ones in, and a degree specialising in the former USSR, and know well the horrors of Communism in this admittedly very broad area, so I would never want it to come across like I was defending the ideology.
Although just to clarify matters, I have ties in, loved ones in, and a degree specialising in the former USSR, and know well the horrors of Communism in this admittedly very broad area, so I would never want it to come across like I was defending the ideology.