Russkij mat

[Ernest Scatton]

Sort of tangential to the question, but....

My wife's grandmother, who left Russia as a young woman about 1920 and
who was educated in the gimnazija, insisted to the point of violence that
the Russian language contained no obscenities. She never said where she
thought they did come from, but she sure refused to recognize them as
native Russian.

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