"putin(ov)shchina" exists.

[colkitto]

In this context, one such form, Yezhovshchina, might be considered as a 
borrowing from Russian into English (565 Google entires in transliteration, 
only 687 in Cyrillic).

There's an even an article titled ЕЖОВЩИНА В ЦРУ, fairly close to the top of 
the Cyrillic listings.

In view of the lurid accusations currently being hurled around in US and 
Canadian politics, I'm surprised the word hasn't gained a little more 
traction.

Robert Orr



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From: "E Wayles Browne" <ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU>
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Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 1:57 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] "putin(ov)shchina" exists.


> Fortunately, we don't have to speculate. Google finds about 377 instances
> of putinshchina and about 33 of putinovshchina, some of which have
> contexts enabling us to see how the users understand the words (others
> just have vituperation).
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>> STEPHENBPEARL at CS.COM wrote:
>> . ...
>>>
>>> 2) Does Russian have any tradiiton of formations like "Spoonerism" or
>>> "Malapropism" where a particular idiosyncracy or eccentricity  of an
>>> individual, real or fictional, is caricatured. If so, how far does
>>> this go back.
> and Paul B. Gallagher replied:
>> It does have a solid tradition of using "-shchina" for this purpose, but
>> that can also refer to the period or the cultural environment and not
>> simply to the practices. How would people here understand the neologism
>> "Putinshchina" if I coined it?
>>
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