# The USSR, Ukraine, and Belarus at the UN

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 17, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ussr-ukraine-and-belarus-at-the-un/369151 "2006-08-17T22:40:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ussr-ukraine-and-belarus-at-the-un/369151/21 "2014-06-08T23:08:21Z")

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> [@psychonaut](#):
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> (Bolding mine.)
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> > The name was earlier applied to hogweed soup, and originally to the hogweed plant itself. While the original Ukrainian word ends in “shch”, not “sht”, the “t” was substituted when the word was borrowed into Yiddish; note that in Bulgarian the combination “sht” corresponds to “shch” in other Slavic language - the Bulgarian pronunciation is likely an archaic one, retained from Proto-Slavic.
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> Source: [Borscht - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borscht)

No sht?

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