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Originally Posted by Tobra
He is a bad actor who will be in power for a long time to come. I would like to go to Russian Georgia someday and see where my grandfather lived as a youth.
Here is a bit of trivia for you Chris. Gulliver(as in, "I have a pain in me gulliver") is a bit of a corruption of the russian word for head. Fair amount of the slang in Clockwork Orange is derived from russian for some reason.
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Like ptitsa, veck, litso, and so on?
IIRC, Burgess wanted to paint a UK that was overrun with poor, eastern European immigrants.