Black the Translator's definitions

Saigon

Famous Russian hippie bar, situated in former Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg nowadays). It's named after South Vietnam capital because USSR supported North Vietnam (its capital was Hanoi), so it was done as a kind of slight and not-so-obvious oppositional act.

- Well, let's hang out at Saigon tonight.
- Who's in there?
- Greben'.
- Wow, it's cool!

by Black the Translator June 16, 2007