Why the fuck would everyday Russians use dollars in the first place two years after the currency was rendered useless in Russia?
Why the fuck would everyday Russians use dollars in the first place two years after the currency was rendered useless in Russia?
As I understand it, it comes from a Russian author who wrote a semi-satirical version of Lord of the Rings as a commentary on how America perpetually sees itself as leading the “fellowship” and all others outside its sphere of sycophants are “orcs.” Libs being libs, they did not pick up on the subtext and just ran with “the Russians consider themselves the orcs!”
I actually watched Zelenskyy’s show “Servant of the People” and at the end of that he makes a reference to Ukraine “being always stuck between the orcs and the elves”. So I guess it was in common usage at least in Ukraine prior to the war