zagranitsa

[Belianine Valeri]

Zdrastvuyte, SEELANGERs
In the dictionary "Living Speech (Zhivaya rech)" (1994)
there are variants:
"Kuritsa - ne ptitsa, Bolgarija / Vengria / Mongolia / GDR / Polsha /
Rumynia / Chechoslovakia ne zagranitsa."
And the explanation was: about a trip to socialist countries that was
not considered before 1990 a real trip abroad.
(ne schitalas nastoyaschey poezdkoj za granitsu).
Also I suppose in "12 chairs" phrase: "Zagranica nam pomozhet"
(quoted during Soviet times) "zagranica" was definitely
associated with capitalist countries.
Cordially, Val Belianine
Professor of Russian, Moscow State University <www.cie.ru>
Editor for www.textology.ru

E> I guess you might remember that even earlier there was a restatement of
E> the infamous politically incorrect saying as "Kuritsa - ne ptitsa,
E> Bolgarija - ne zagranitsa."
E> Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>
E> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Alina Israeli wrote:
>> In my memory the very first use of it that I remember and that struck me
>> then as incorrect occurred in the song by Vysotskij "Nejtral'naja polosa"
>> (1966):
>> "Emu i na fig ne nuzhna byla chuzhaja ZAGRANICA
>> On projtit'sja xotel po nichejnoj zemle...
>> A na nejtral'noj polose cvety - neobychajnoj krasoty"

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