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| One of numerous bas-reliefs in the Elektrozavodskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia |
A bit of history framed as a review of a TV series:
Was Peter the Great Russia’s Antichrist – or its saviour? by Dmitry Samoilov
He mentions Elektrozavodskaya, which meant nothing so I looked it up and found there is a very fancy metro station with that name, hence the above image.
He comments on a phrase used in the show: Fille danke is a bastard phrase - fille is French for girl and danke is German for thank you. Vielen dank is German for 'many thanks'. Why are we using German here? Maybe he's trying to make it intelligible to English speakers. 'Many thanks' in Russian is большое спасибо, which is gibberish to me.
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