>>>>However, he did not like considering himself as Georgian. He was another Russian Emperor.
>>>>:)
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>>>The great Russian family of Dzhugashvili :).
>>
>>Tsssss! 50 years ago such phrases would lead you straight to GULAG... :)
>
>Wrong, ordinary Gulag was what you got for nothing; for a sentence like that you get Norilsk ;).
To be more precise - it is "10 years of firing squad at Magadan" :)
That's probably where the Russian sayng comes from, when somebody gets punished and asks:
"What for???"
"Nothing. If anything - you would be shot".
:)
really it should be ":((("
Nick Neklioudov
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