![Today is the 65th anniversary of Stalin's death. Here is how an Ukrainian immigrant celebrated the occasion. 1953 [540 × 738]](/photos/82783j.jpg)
Today is the 65th anniversary of Stalin's death. Here is how an Ukrainian immigrant celebrated the occasion. 1953 [540 × 738]
Today is the 65th anniversary of Stalin's death. Here is how an Ukrainian immigrant celebrated the occasion. 1953 [540 × 738]
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Plan4Chaos2,108 赞2018/3/6
The "Ukrainian" part is made up by the OP. The photo was reproduced multiple times and the ethnicity of the owner is unknown. He may be Russian or Belorussian or whatever. The original caption in the newspaper The News Herald literally said: >3/9/1953–Washington, DC: Eileen Keenan, a waitress at the 1203 Restaurant, puts up a sign outside the restaurant, March 6, inviting everyone to enjoy "Free Borst" in celebration of Stalin's death. And that's basically all what's known.
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Nixon4Prez248 赞2018/3/6
That's the last name of the waitress in the picture though, not the owner.
oneeighthirish162 赞2018/3/6
Lots of Eastern Europeans also changed their names because of the cold war. My Family used to have the Lithuanian name "Zakonus" (Pronounced Jack-onus) but Americanized it because Lithuanians were considered "Russian" and therefore "Communist".
FoodBeerBikesMusic50 赞2018/3/6
Or changed it so Americans could pronounce it correctly. Source: ex wife’s family came from Ukraine and dropped a letter in their name that was supposed to be silent.
Killersavage39 赞2018/3/6
My father’s family name got changed when the guys at Ellis island just wrote down what they heard and my great grandparents just went with it. Probably how a lot of names got Americanized.
Ragnar_Lodbrok62 赞2018/3/6
The idea that names got Americanized at Ellis Island by the inspectors is a myth, the inspectors did not record the names of the immigrants, they merely compared the names to the ship's manifest. It was almost always the immigrants themselves that changed their names to fit in with American society better. [Here's](https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/07/02/name-changes-ellis-island) an article about it.
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jimthewanderer71 赞2018/3/6
Why not? Assume you have some mates of Irish descent, or recent migrants, might make sense to try and disguise yourselves in a community you're already friendly with.
DonBiggles18 赞2018/3/6
There's also the case of [Bob O'Billovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_O%27Billovich), a football coach of Serbian descent whose grandfather's name was just spelled in an Irish way by a US immigration official.
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Alfredo_Garcias_Head39 赞2018/3/6
> The "Ukrainian" part is made up by the OP Or OP had a bad source? I wouldn't be so quick to pile on, people make mistakes.
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55 years ago Prague took down the largest statue of Stalin ever made. In 1996, Michael Jackson (in an effort to promote his musical tour) put his own statue up on the empty concrete pedestal...which, needless to say, was a very awkward situation for those living there.
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That is the most Stalin-esque statue that could have ever been. What was he thinking?
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It seriously looks tyrannical. He's a bloody fool!
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Ya, I half excepted the moonwalk or Thriller poses. Nope, looks like he went for the dictator look.
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He knew what he was doing but had so many yes men around him that it sounded like he was doing something creative.
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Because he's bad, he's bad, he's really really bad.
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Who’s bad?
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Umm... Michael Jackson. Keep up.
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I don't remember this line from the song
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I don't see it anywhere in the lyrics.... "Because I'm fat, I'm fat, come on
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, I'm fat, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, I'm fat, come on you know
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
Don't you call me pudgy, portly or stout
Just now tell me once again who's fat"
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Hm, on the one hand it's probably a bit disrespectful. On the other hand renting out the place for Stalin's statue to an Western pop musician who wanted to use it as an advertising gag is quite a statement, too.
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I know that album cover, but never knew it was a real statue. I assumed it was a miniature or a art. crazy.
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As talented as he was, MJ never really had a knack for reading social situations very well.
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Probably because he's been in showbusiness his entire life. While other kids were at school socializing he was learning a new song and dance routine.
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When your Dad has been literally beating the black out of you and tells you to stop playing with your friends and dance this new hot step he learned you fucking step. Poor guy. He lived a tortured life to be sure.
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That's what happens when you have no childhood :(
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And a sadist piece of shit instead of a proper father figure.
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Throwing a plug for his new business into the family's statement when MJ died! My jaw dropped when he did that..
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At Michael Jacksons funeral Reporter "how are you holding up?" Joe Jackson: "oh I'm great! I'm doing good" Seriously didn't even phase him that MJ was dead, he didnt even read his own release, just had an assistant do it for him on TV. Fucking dirtbag
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"Let me just show everyone my baby on this balcony!"
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He did that to purposely shock though. He was so sick of the press that he wanted to give them “something to talk about”. He did truly lose it for a second.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he had mild autism.
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We went from Stalin to MJ way too fast
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That seems so random...
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Neither the waitress, nor the painter who painted the sign or the restaurant's owner are Ukrainians/Ukrainian immigrants. The dish is called борщ = borshch. No Ukrainian would misspell that.
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No it wouldn't. It would be like an American spelling реетса хут or something. You know a lot of Americans who know how to spell English words in Cyrillic? Yeah. Of course these guys do live in America, and your friends probably don't live in Ukraine, but I'd assume it takes a while before an immigrant learns a new alphabet.
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Anyone seen The Death of Stalin? It is as frighteningly funny as it is frighteningly shocking. Jason Isaacs steals it as General Zhukov.
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Watched it yesterday - then watched it again. Funniest "historical" film ever. It's super weird because I had a relative who worked in the US embassy in Moscow not long before this all went down; he left a published memoir and his descriptions of a lot of these major players are... frighteningly apt.
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“Now excuse me while I represent the whole red army at the buffet.” What a movie. Can’t recommend it enough.
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I didn't mean "no problem." What I meant was "No.... problem."
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Are the quotes then equivalent to an asterisk in today’s advertisements?
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"We invite you to enjoy some free borscht. We never said we were going to provide you with some."
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Nope. People are just idiots who think quotes can be used for emphasis. It still happens constantly, see:
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The first (post-occupation) president of my country read the news of stalin dying and decided to get married on that joyous day to his girlfriend.
He was also a badass in many other ways.
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Johnny Cash was a crypto in the Air Force at the time and is very likely the first American to decipher the news. He also wrote the song Folsom Prison Blues based on the movie *Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison* using tone he deciphered D-E-A-D [Source](https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/08/07/johnny-cash-was-the-first-american-to-hear-about-stalins-death/)
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Could someone tell my why it’s in English? Is it that common in Ukraine?
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No one actually knows if she's Ukrainian or not. Also, no, English is absolutely not common in Ukraine.
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This is not a Ukrainian immigrant, nor is it in Ukraine. This is an American woman in America.
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Hello, there is a commonly shared tidbit about Stalin's death, in which it is alleged that a young USAF radio operator was the first westerner to learn about the death of chairman awful, that young operator's name was the late John R. Cash. My question is how did this story came to be? Seems like it was injected into the American consciousness as a way to add to the Man In Black's mystique
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Well I’m glad my birthday is the same Dad as the day Stalin died, 2 reasons to celebrate!
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I am Ukrainian, and I was offended to see how Americans spell "borscht" but apparently, it's borrowed from Yiddish - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borscht. It is a Ukrainian meal though. I'm sure Stalin loved it lol
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Wait would you write “an Ukrainian” or “a Ukrainian”? Cause like you’d say “a” but grammar says it should be “an” since the words starts with a vowel.
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Has anyone colorized this picture yet?
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Is English that common in Ukraine?
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Why is the sign not in Ukrainian?
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