Chapter 3:
Looking Backward:
A Meme’s Eye View of Russian History and Culture
“I’m not moving. I’m afraid the cat might get offended and leave.”
“We’re fucked, comrades”
“Let’s pretend it never happened”
“Vova, are you have any more?
“Are you having any more?
“Vova?”
From: https://provse.today/skorostnoj-priehal-v-moskvu-dlya-poseshheniya-lenina-interesnoe-foto-kanal-24/
[Grammatical variations on the slogan “Lenin lives, Lenin lived, Lenin will live!”
“Lenin is a mushroom, Lenin is a mushroom, Lenin will be a mushroom!”
“No, you’re a mushroom!”
“Comrade Stalin, a prophet is here. He says he can tell the future!”
“Shoot him! If he knew the future, he wouldn’t have come.”
“This sort of shit never happened when I was around!”
When Comrade Stalin Smoked
The Ministry of Health didn’t make a peep
Comrade Stalin approves of your inner monologue
From: http://polimem.forumsdp.ru/25/kogda-kuril-tovarisch-stalin
“This sort of shit never happened when I was around!”
He came from the past
To change our future…
Long before Weinstein
Brezhnev made people kiss him in public
Brezhnev gotta Brezhnev
From: https://admem.ru/1377078568
Let me kiss you!
From: http://memesmix.net/meme/7999d8
Best kisses
From:
https://shutniki.club/memy/10744-memy-pro-brezhneva-foto
Everyone follows their nature.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
From:
http://risovach.ru/kartinka/7502938
When you’re just talking, but suddenly, what you were saying rhymed
You when you’ve found
a new rhyme on the ground
From:
http://1001mem.ru/p3902770
The first Russian rapper wasn’t Timati. It was A.S. Pushkin. His rhymes were great, he had African roots, and he died in a shoot-out
From:
https://fun.tochka.net/pictures/73893-pushkin-nastoyashchiy-russkiy-repper/