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perestroika

The economical programme pioneered by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986, including social reform in the name of glasnost, allowing more economical and political freedoms to the Soviet populace. As populary mentioned, this programme was not the cause of the collapse of the already weakened Soviet Union but merely a catalyst for that inevitable event.
Perestroika was a step in the right direction, allowing the populace of the USSR to formulate their own devices for the future, thereby collapsing the USSR atop themselves, willingly and rightfully. Hail Mikhail Gorbachev!
by Albert Miaskovsky August 22, 2004
mugGet the perestroikamug.

belijvolk

white wolf (in Russian, transliterated from the Cyrillic). A word sometimes used in the Russian-American community of NYC to refer to gaudy taste and watered down, filtered-through ideas, notions, and actions stemming therefrom.
Misha- Kolya, have you seen the new Bloomingdales display on 59th?

Kolya - Yea..it was MAD belijvolk, why?

Misha - I thought so too. It's dreary and tasteless.

Kolya - Tell me about it...
by Albert Miaskovsky April 5, 2010
mugGet the belijvolkmug.

frou frou

A variety show popular in Paris and environs from the about 1870s to the 1920s immortalized by the lavish and erotic for their time outfits of the female dancers, which consisted of feathered boas, layered underskirts and ruffly undergarments which were exposed during lively dancing numbers.
See infamous 1900 print 'FROU FROU' by Lucien-Henri Weiluc.
by Albert Miaskovsky May 4, 2004
mugGet the frou froumug.

sovok

A person who assembles a packed lunch of hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, salted herring, and tea in a thermos, all of which are to be unwrapped in a public place atop a copy of PRAVDA and devoured noisily, preferably while in ones yellowing undergarments, to a combination of anti-semitic palaver, garbled recordings of Igor Sklyar emanating from a rusted red Lada parked by the artificial river, and the putrid smoke of Prima and Belomor-Krai.


Also:

1. A profound and tangled philosophy concerning the soviet hoi polloi and its industrialized, tractor-crushed soul.

2. One of the faceless masses residing in the USSR or CIS:

- The vendor in the local meat or bread store with her excessive make up, flamboyant shoes, and a heart full of pure hatred.

- The burly old men in hats and arms behind their backs pausing to argue about anti-semitic conspiracy politics and the football match, in angered tones.

- The woman who cuts into a 3-mile long line for imported Czechoslovakian boots, knowing that she will incite a loud, violent riot, while claiming her actions were still somehow fair.

2. A state of being wherein an objective reality based on complete absurdity and idiocy triumphs.

3. Soviet trash

4. The modern Soviet expatriate residing in Brooklyn, New York.

5. whimit
Is it man...beast...or sovok?
by Albert Miaskovsky March 11, 2004
mugGet the sovokmug.

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