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Originally Posted by Itse
My friend Vera (native Russian speaker who's family escaped from Soviet Russia and who has vowed to never ever step a foot in that country again) is keeping it light in her FB by translating Russian humour she's seeing on social media.
Jokes obviously rarely translate well, but I thought this might humour people anyway. (Russian humour in my experience tends to be pretty dark at the best of times :P)
(I'm toning down many of the wordings here.)
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Another example of dark Russian humour: In order to help finance the war effort the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.