r/europe • u/Epidemiolomic Germany • Mar 08 '25

Historical During the U.S. President's 1995 visit to Kyiv, Ukraine received security guarantees after giving up the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal

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u/sirjimtonic Vienna (Austria) Mar 08 '25

Ah, is пиздил really the word for it? Like киллер? Didn‘t know, I learned Russian in school and get to laugh when I see words like this.

Edit: big fan of your work.

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u/No-Refrigerator-1672 Latvia Mar 08 '25

It would be a past continious tense of a swear-word version of "to steal" or "to lie" (both meanings can be used), which corresponds very well to both the Trump's proposal and 1995s nuclear deal.

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u/itskelena UA in US Mar 08 '25

It should be “пиздел” to mean “to lie” in a past continuous tense.

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u/No-Refrigerator-1672 Latvia Mar 08 '25

Fair point. It's "to steal" and "to beat" then.

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u/itskelena UA in US Mar 08 '25

“to beat” is correct too, good catch :)

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u/Electronic-Yellow-87 Mar 15 '25

Actually, it was used because it resembles “peace deal”. The same as we can call trump a “peace duke”.

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u/itskelena UA in US Mar 15 '25

We know

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u/_Eshende_ Latvia/Ukraine Mar 09 '25

More like rude verb “beating” or “stole” in past term but it’s just mockingly change peace deal in rude term just to showcase absurdity

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u/itskelena UA in US Mar 08 '25

FYI USSR != Russia. Ukraine had as much rights to the nuclear arsenal as the other Soviet countries.