# In soviet Russia, curses swear you!

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 4, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-soviet-russia-curses-swear-you/815387 "2018-06-04T02:39:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-soviet-russia-curses-swear-you/815387/21 "2018-06-07T15:33:35Z")

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> [@Colophon](#):
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> I have a guilty weakness for Russian dashcam videos. About 80% of them seem to include the word “blyat” (блять), usually in combination, as “suka blyat” (сука блять). I often heard something like “voyu mat” as well, but until **DPRK** ’s post I didn’t know I was hearing “твою мать”!

Related to “blyat” there’s the somewhat more family-friendly “blin”. Which literally means “pancakes”, but is very often used as euphemism for “blyat” much like English speakers say “fudge !”, “heck !” or French speakers sometimes exclaim “mercredi !” and “purée !”

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-soviet-russia-curses-swear-you/815387/22 "2018-06-07T15:41:38Z")

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[What is “purée” a euphemism for?]

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-soviet-russia-curses-swear-you/815387/23 "2018-06-07T16:29:00Z")

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[“putain”. Or, as the word is used in my circles, punctuation :)]

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-soviet-russia-curses-swear-you/815387/24 "2018-06-07T18:28:33Z")

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Thanks. Wednesdays indeed are shitty. But “enculundi” should exist and is indeed the shittiest.

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-soviet-russia-curses-swear-you/815387/25 "2018-06-07T19:39:10Z")

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Now that you make me think about it, I don’t think there is a euphemism for that’un. There should be one, surely. Let it enceforth be known across the land (well, OUR lands, y’all can fuck off) that we shall swear about ENCRIERS !  
It scans, it rhymes, it’s perfect. Let it be so, bande d’encriers !

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**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-soviet-russia-curses-swear-you/815387/26 "2018-06-08T01:54:17Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> [A Cultural Analysis Of The Russo-Soviet _Anekdot_](http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/9560/1/grahamsethb_etd2003.pdf)  
> MA thesis, knock yourself out. Good for character analysis and has on topic examples and popular media scene (of course Soviet controlled) as background.
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> [Forgive my intrusion, but make sure you give him a credit in your published novel if you find it useful.]

oooooh. i love research phase. and yes absolutely. I live in hope that some of my own ‘boring’ work/school writing will be helpful or interesting to someone eventually, so attribution is important.

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-soviet-russia-curses-swear-you/815387/27 "2018-06-08T10:29:50Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Wiki has a page precisely on that: [Mat (profanity) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_(Russian_profanity))

Thanks. I also recognise yebat (ебать) as a common expression from those dashcam videos!

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