Ivan Betinov wrote:If I am reading the medal-based hieroglyphics correctly, the Rodina plans to raise corn on Mars a la the vaunted Virgin Lands program. ...
In view of Laika's (psst! Mueller!) Mars-involvement, and from a jar's perspective, you are
absolutely korrekt, Komrade Betinov.
From
Red October (sorry, already Red November) perspective, it reads (Ukrainian
→ Russian):
ЗНАТНЫЙ КУКУРУЗОВОД УКРАИНЫ - Ukraine's Distinguished Cultivator of Kukuruza (= Corn).
Ivan Betinov wrote:Is Khrushchev being rehabilitated in Party history?
Absolutely true, Komrade Betinov.
The Annals of History, Tome 1960, remember him as
Shoe-Banging Nikita.
While in the same Tome, Chapter Eastern Bloc, Nikita is immortalized as:
ВЕДУЩИЙ КУКРУЗОВОДЯЩИЙ УКРАИНЕЦ - Leading Kukuruza-Cultivating Ukrainian.
(think: Führer of Kukuruza.)
(As you know, Nikita was an Ukrainyets. That's why he happily did the
1954 Crimea rochade.)
P.S. Viva AI, Artificial Intelligence!
Komrades, you wouldn't believe what Google Translator does with that
ЗНАТНЫЙ.. !