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Top 15 ways to know you're a descendant of White emigre Russians...

1) You have a portrait of Tsar Nicholas somewhere in your house.

2) Your parents' Russian is rife with Serbian, Bulgarian, French, or Spanish words.

3) You like to sing "Zveite sokoli orlami" with your friends while drinking in an Irish bar.

4) You were taught Russian dances as a child, and had to perform them with your mom at every function.

5) You'll fly from California to New York in order to attend someone's graduation party.

6) The parish you attend is located one hour away in a bad neighborhood because your grandparents can't stand the priest in the nicer parish that's just ten minutes away.

7) You have World War II veterans in your family who fought on the "other side".

8) You were called a "commie" by kids in school, despite your repeated efforts to enlighten them.

9) You wonder why second generation Ukrainians, Georgians, and Balts get offended if you call them "Russian".

10) You were forbidden to wear red T-shirts and have anything that could resemble a red flag.

11) You know which people in politics and business are freemasons.

12) You've gotten into at least one heated debate with Ukrainians over the proper spelling of Kiev.

13) You've said "...and let's also not forget that at least 20 million Russians died during World War II" during Social Studies class.

14) You've said "...but neither Trotsky nor Stalin were Russian, and Lenin was only a quarter!" and were quickly told to shut up during Social Studies class.

15) At least once, you've had to say "Thanks, but we don't do sader - that's Russian Orthodox JEWS you're talking about..."

Alexandr

You've written numbers 12, 13, and 14 here on the forum!!!

The rest, I don't get, especially number 3. I don't even know what a White emigre Russian is.

We're the ones who fought the commies.

AHHHHHHH!

I still don't get #3. We sing Irish songs in our Irish Pub chains. (No authentic ones here. But the lamb was awesome!)

16) You detest communists as much as you detest Ukrainian nationalists.

17) You believe the earliest known scriptures were written in Russian.

Unfortunately, this is true.
Do you really this this is appropriate, even in jest, the day before a panakhyda is being celebrated in the MP cathedral in Moscow for the Ukrainian victims of the man-made famine?


I think you have gone too far.

OK, I'm sorry if it offended you. It was intended jokingly.

When may we expect a service for the repose of the victims of the man-made famine in Ireland to be held in Westminster Abbey?

Fr. Serge

We may be waiting awhile on that one.

when we see a pig flying past my window ?

But you know, if we got the word out that the starving Irish were homosexuals oppressed by intolerant Christians, that service would be held within the month.

You know your a Russian if Family Gatherings resemble C-Span as if sfilend as a Spy movie, with conspiracies combined wth critisism.


(Sorry, I know Russians.)

Well, since there seem to be people in the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church of Irish background, maybe they could start the ball rolling by including the commemoration of the man-made famine in Ireland on the same day and in the same panakhyda for the Ukrainian victims.

As a Ukrainian I would have no objection to that. To me the main issue would be that both nations included victims who suffered from a man-made famine and not a famine caused by nature.
It could be seen as an exumenical gesture because the Irish were Catholic and the Ukrainians who were victims of the famine were Orthodox.

You know First wave emigrees in Tennessee? Forgive me but I did not comprehend the rest of your post.

Alexandr