Even Frivolity in Slavdom is Too Hard, Part II

While the world watches (or flips through) the 4-month+ long cage fight that is the Ukrainian parliament, an interesting observation was made:

Another question is how Yanukovich will keep together a coalition made up of billionaires, red-blooded sovoks and crypto-Communists. This should prove to be as difficult as the failed virtual "orange" coalition [of billionaires, populists, and ethnicy pop stars].

Which of course reminds me of an incredibly long and amusing article on the “sovok” courtesy of The eXile:

Any psychologist will tell you that the opposite urge is at work with the sovok: having grown up living in a pile of people, he will for the rest of his life be drawn to human piles, no matter how much inner rage and incoherence this costs him.
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This tradition of verbal diarrhea, so familiar to foreigners who have worked hard to grow accustomed to it, was what caused such freakish phenomena as the anchorman Yevgeny Kisyelov, a man physically incapable of speaking a simple declarative sentence.

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Incidentally, eXile.ru is also home to the finest political/travel-type article ever written (sorry Kaplan, O’Rourke, et al.) War Nerd, I love you!