Slavic? : ✅
Behind the iron curtain? : ✅
Close enough
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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The east-west divide by the iron curtain is also more recent being the capital of the not-holy not-roman not-an-empire so
Geez, it's like you go and get absorbed into one ostensibly socialist authoritarian eurasian empire and it's all anyone can remember.
What do they say about fucking goats again?
"Be careful about which end you approach from"? 😛
Czechoslovakia was never part of the USSR
Neither was Poland, but both were very much in the "2nd sphere", effectively under the control of the USSR. My family had close friends in Czechoslovakia who flat-out were not allowed to travel to the US to visit their family at the time, for example.
Oh yeah it was very much under USSR control don't get me wrong
It was part of the empire though.
This scene sets up Cotton's best line. I guess this version would be:
"Hey, Cotton, this is _____, he's from Eastern Europe."
"No he ain't! He's, from Prague, aintcha Mr. ______!"
Cotton's a horrible racist, but at least he knows what ethnicity the people he hates are.
It bothers me that William Fontaine de La Tour Dauterive, bilingual in English and Louisiana French, isn’t France
Boomhauer speaks French too, if memory serves
It’s the Louisiana French I mentioned
Boomhauer speaks Canadian French, I believe; Bill Dauterive speaks Cajun French.
Something like this happened to me when I went to Spain, I'm from Mexico and I kept trying to explain to spaniards how we're in north america and not south america.
I guess the US is South America to Canada. Except for Alaska.
Or to people in Detroit, Canada is South America.
More East America.
Why isn't Dale Russia? He's clearly fluent in it.
You, too, can be fluent in Russian if you eat enough of Putin's personal library.
As a German speaker, A-plus on the dale gribble characterization
Eastern Europe is just the bits occupied by the Soviet union post ww2