Russia introduced a new Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation, compiled at St. Petersburg State University and immediately added to the official list of normative dictionaries.
Some examples:
authoritarianism … considered the most effective form of governance in difficult times for a country …
marriage … family union between a man and a woman … same-sex marriage (a homosexual intimate union between a man and a man or a woman and a woman, condemned by the Russian Orthodox Church and not supported by the Russian state) …
enemy … One whom the sovereign authority has deemed hostile to the people, the government, or the state. An ideological enemy. A sworn enemy …
humanism … traditional Russian spiritual and moral value: a worldview based on the principles of the value of the human person, human dignity, respect for others, concern for their well-being, the right to freedom, equality …
life … traditional Russian spiritual and moral value: the period of a person’s existence from conception …
unity … unity of the system of public authority. The historical unity of Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians. The unity of the peoples of Russia (a traditional Russian spiritual and moral value) …
ideal … Moral ideals (a traditional Russian spiritual and moral value: high moral principles and convictions that inspire and guide a person toward goodness, justice, honesty, compassion, and other virtues, with strict rejection of destructive ideologies that allow immoral conduct, actions causing suffering, corruption, and other unlawful deeds) …
limitrophe … in 21st-century Europe: a state used as a buffer between Western Europe and Russia, which is politically, economically, and culturally incapable of being independent …
regime … set of political, economic, and social measures used by state authorities to govern society … the Kyiv regime (in Ukraine since 2014: the established form of political rule, which poses a threat to the fundamental rights and interests of the Russian-speaking population) …
You can’t make this shit up :D
That’s so absurd level of cartoon villianly it can’t be real, right?
Meanwhile, it omits some words entirely — from “Gulag” and “Stalinism” to “faith,” “hope,” “good,” and “truth.”
You can’t make this shit up
George Orwell managed in 1949.
I’m not really surprised that they are using it as a manual.
It’s still so absurd, like how can someone with a straight face and seriously say “BTW, " good” and “hope” ale no longer a valid words The State recognizes". Totalitarian regimes are seriously fucked, not that I didn’t know that before, but little things like this really drive the point home.
“If you can’t say ‘ass,’ you can’t say ‘Putin’s face looks like an ass that’s gone lumpy from neglect.’” -not quite Lenny Bruce
Ass
