No Strings On Me

the enormous majority of American citizens didn’t want to join the fighting in the second world war

for years Americans didn’t care that people (Jews) were being massacred

Hitler was doing all kinds of anti-Jewish shit for about six years before the war even started and the American government’s official response was basically  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

in 1939, the United States denied entry to 900 Jewish refugees. The boat had to turn back to Europe, and many of these people subsequently died in the Holocaust 

in 1941, even though the State Department knew what was happening in concentration camps, the American government made it’s immigration policies stricter so that it was harder for fleeing refugees to find safety on American soil

it was only after an attack on American soil (Pearl Harbor) happened that Americans finally entered the conflict (the epitome of “I only care about a thing if it directly affects my life” and 70 years later nothing has changed)

it is largely believed in America today that they “won the war” when, if we’re being historically accurate, what they did was show up halfway through to tie up loose ends and then take credit for what Russia had been working towards for three years. America was basically The Vulture from Brooklyn Nine Nine. The job was almost done, and they swooped in at the last minute, did the bare minimum, and then took credit for the whole thing

Bitches: Cancer, Gemini, Libra, Leo

For those of you learning Russian or just curious about it :)

spelling is a mess 

punctuation is even worse: you have to know 76487658 rules and conduct a 10-step linguistic analysis to put proper punctuation marks in a more or less complex sentence

we constantly mix up similar-looking letters in English and Russian on the keyboard

everyone’s New Year resolution is to brush up their English

no one actually says ‘zdrav-stvuj-teh’ (здравствуйте, hello). It’s usually ‘zdras-tu-te’, ‘zdras-te’ (the most common variant), or even ‘dras-te’ (there is a russian meme ‘дратути’ (dra-tu-tee) mocking a way of shortening the word)

in fast speech it’s normal to drop like 10-20% of sounds 

there are quite a few widely used words an expressions originated from criminal argot, presumably left over after mass imprisonment under Stalin

the common way to address a stranger is мужчина, женщина or девушка (literally ‘man, woman, [young] girl’). Everyone finds it weird and inconvenient, but can’t to come up with smth else

Russian swear words sound way ruder than English ones (still almost everyone swears)

quite a lot of English words don’t have well-sounding alternatives in Russian (words like self-consciousness, counterintuitive, a rule of thumb will sound strange translated literally)

…but good luck translating 50 shades of meaning of Russian diminutives (кошка, кошечка, киса, кисонька, кисуля, кисулечка vs cat or kitty)

don’t ask me how Russian works without articles and link verbs, it’s probably just black magic