Glazastik. The New Internet Hero

Russians like to make internet stars from amusing or extraordinary people seen in mass communication media. For example, for some period of time such a star was Chumazik (Dirty-Faced Fellow), a drunken factory worker. The video with this guy was a true hit in 2005 across Russian part of Internet.

That was three years ago. But here is another story, the new one. During the press conference of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, that took place on G8 summit, some young man started to throw out propaganda leaflets. This incident became very popular in the Russian part of the Internet. The reason of such popularity is neither the actions of the young activist, nor the smart reaction of the Mr. President. The reason was the man sitting in the conference hall (you can see him on the picture above). They called him Glazastik (Big-Eyed Guy). Below you can see the short video of this incident - see the guy with strange eyes behind the guy with leaflets, clear at 00.58 of the video. After the video was spread around Russian Internet many photoshopped versions of him appeared, we also include them here.







Glazastik and Chumazik.

Some animated works:

“Stand up and throw out the leaflets!” (hypnosis)

Oh, this weed is good.

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    107 Responses to “Glazastik. The New Internet Hero”

    1. oli says:

      How come that guy throwing papers said something in Russian then Putin started saying something to him in German?

      • fugu says:

        Because Putin worked many years as KGB-agent in germany (dresden) und speaks german very good, but normaly in official events he speaks only russian, just for representation as russiaÄs head.

        • oli says:

          Yes I was aware that Putin speaks fluent German, I just didn’t realise the young man had said anything in German so was a bit confused why Putin would reply in German. Seems the young man throwing papers did say something in German after all which is why Putin responded in the same language.

          Cheers. :)

      • Alex says:

        Because Putin knows German?

      • At first the guy throwing papers said “Putin ist ein Schwein” (Putin’s a jerk) or something similar - maybe that’s one reason Putin adressed him in German and a reason for the paper throwing guy speaking Russian is that in the former GDR people had to learn Russian and on some schools they taught Russian after the reunification as well.

        A pity the Russian media translated putin so loudly one could not even hear what Putin was saying in German.

        • oli says:

          Yeah fair enough. I didn’t catch the German comment by the young man at first. The translation was loud indeed, I only just caught the German then quickly rewound to find out what Putin said (I speak German but not Russian).

          Presumably the video was in Heiligendamm so the young man may have been a German or a Russian - who knows.

      • pravesh says:

        “Junger Mann, geben Sie mir was Sie geworfen haben. Gut?
        Sie haben gemacht, was sie gemacht wollten. Jetzt lassen Sie uns in Ruhe. Geben Sie mir Zeit, das zu beantworten. Gut? Einverstanden? Ist das demokratisch? Setzen Sie sich hin!”

        “Young man, give me what you have thrown. Ok? You have done, what you wanted to do. (grammar improved from German here)
        Now leave us in peace. Give me time to answer this. Ok? Understood? Is that democratic? Now sit down!”

      • Me! says:

        G8 Summit was in Germany. Kid was German. Said something in German… thus illiciting a response in German.

      • michael says:

        it was the g8 thing in heiligendamm germany while this happended. the man throwing paper must have been a german.

    2. That’s really fun! Thank you, i’ve laughed alot!

    3. Goe says:

      Putin says:
      “Junger Mann, geben Sie mir was Sie geworfen haben. Gut?
      Sie haben gemacht, was sie gemacht wollten. Jetzt lassen Sie uns in Ruhe. Geben Sie mir Zeit, das zu beantworten. Gut? Einverstanden? Ist das demokratisch? Setzen Sie sich hin!”

      “Young man, give me what you have thrown. Ok? You have done, what you wanted to do. (grammar improved from German here)
      Now leave us in peace. Give me time to answer this. Ok? Understood? Is that democratic? Now sit down!”

      • Andreas says:

        Well thats a really great reply. I’d probably have started to yell at him. Putin showed off his intelligent side, thats for sure.

        • You might have started to yell at him, but chances are you wouldn’t have done the things Putin had done to provoke him (fake war in Chechnya, fake Chechen terrorists, abolishing elected governorships, probably assassinating Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko, imprisoning Mikhail Khodorkovsky, fanning the flames of violent xenophobia and homophobia, etc., etc., etc.).

          …how fitting that the captcha/aka “anti-spam word” that I had to type in order to post this comment was “comrade.”

          • Andreas says:

            I live in Sweden, but in many cases I support Putin. Russia could, in 50 years or so be one of the last white countries. The rest of Europe will be filled with muslims, and where there arent muslims there will be yugoslavian, turk and gipsy territory (how do you spell those shit countries?)…

            If I was in your shoes, I wouldnt want my country to get ass fucked by muslims, gays and USA in the way the rest of Europe is at this moment speaking…

            Go Russia!

            • Random Guy says:

              Andreas, you sound like an ignorant dick. Do you not have any idea of how many muslims already are in Russia and in the Central Asian belt (ex-Russian satellites)???

              Do everyone a favour and next time you want to say something make sure you are not talking out of your ass.

            • doug says:

              hey Andrej (Andreas)

              Russian nationalists who live in Sweden is so funny. Imagine that, you “love, mother russia” your birthcountry but you live in multicultural, successfull, industrial Sweden, a long-time enemy of Russia and this to live a better life than what you could have in backward, corrupt and violent Russia. Oh! the self-contradiction and irony of your existence is almost unbearably comic.
              Ciao.

              • Andreas says:

                Wow, didnt expect such reactions.

                First of all, no Im not a “russian nationalist”. Ive been a Swedish citizen for all of my life, but Ive travelled alot. Ive been to some Russian cities several times and Im aware of the problems of Russia.

                However you dont seem to be aware of the problems of Sweden, and EU. It will be trouble when you “import” millions of muslims every year. Only in Sweden there is 100,000 immigrants each year, mainly muslims. The difference between Russia and Sweden is that we feed the immigrants, due to our too genereous welfare system. The result of this is that we get flooded by people who cant, or doesnt want, to work. You guys dont do that, the muslims have to work if they wanna live, driving taxi or whatever.

                Take a look at this vid: http://youtube.com/watch?v=MwhdZQH8y1M

                This is the reality of contemporary Sweden. 90% are unemployd in one suburb. Sweden was succesful but are now only multicultural. Thats really sad.

                • Giovani says:

                  Multiculturalism is a discredited theory that has never worked anywhere in the world.
                  It raises the living standards of the immigrants, and lowers the living standards of the host nation.
                  Like communism, It looked good on paper but was a complete failure in practice, and It’s no surprise that the same “intelligentsia” who favoured communism also favour multiculturalism.
                  AS long as they don’t have to live with it themselves.

                  • David says:

                    I am white and male and I live in Canada, which is hugely multicultural–South Asians (Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs), Chinese, Japanese, Europeans, Africans, Middle Eastern people, Jamaicans and others from Caribbean and West Indies, among others–and multiculturalism is working just fine here. There are the kinds of racial tensions and situations you might expect, but in general they are not significant in the overall welfare and well-being of the nation.

                    It’s true, the living standards of the immigrants have definitely been raised (and much of that has been the point of our immigration and refugee initiatives), but you’d be hard-pressed to say that the living standards of Canada have been lowered as a result. I live with multiculturalism every day–at work, in my neighbourhood, in my family and among my friends. I am delighted that I live this way, and have been exposed to many interesting and enjoyable cultural, educational, political and spiritual viewpoints and experiences as a result.

                    Maybe you should come here, Andreas, and try to figure out why multiculturalism has been such a success here and such a failure , according to you, in Sweden.

                    • Well articulated david. I live in Toronto and love the mixed culture. This is how it should be everywhere.

                    • bumblebee says:

                      I live in Manitoba Canada.Yes Canada is very multi cultural that doesn’t mean everyone is treated equally.First Nations people claim they want equal treatment and racism to stop, but what they really want is to be treated special. theres a day for them to celebrate everything.they are living off of mine an my familiy’s money NOT the governments, but MINE.I don’t think we’re the worst example of multiculturalism but I don’t think we’re the best.I don’t think there is a really good example.

                    • numb says:

                      There is a difference between refugees and educated immigrants.

                • It`s an old xenofobic fairy-tale about work places. All european sitizens used to think that fucking muslims grabbed their money. How many young swedens want to work on such low-payed and unpopular work places like muslims do?Andreas do you want to be a shit-cleaner or to wear “Prada”? At last, explain, please, where have you got such fact that muslims are “people who cant, or doesnt want, to work”? Try to think, maybe it`s only comfortable generalization?

                • It sounds to me from what you have said that u are a fucking racist?

            • Johnp says:

              Borat, is that you?

            • Croat says:

              Andreas why do you mix yugoslavian with muslims, turks and gipsy-s?

              There is no yugoslavia anymore, now there are Croatia,Bosnia,Slovenia and Serbia.

              Except from bosnia that used to be under turks for a long time and has a lot of muslims, in croatia, slovenia and serbia there are very litle muslims.

              • Andreas says:

                I mix them simply cuz they’re the ones who are the trouble here in Sweden. Ask any Swede and they will mention the muslims (i.e. Iraqis, north-Africans and so on), the “former” Yugoslavian and the gipsys.

              • Actually, several things to mention

                Pretty much all of the Balkans were under Turkish rule at one point.

                Yugoslavians, all of them, would probably be considered ‘white’, wether Serbian, Croatian or Bosian-Herzegovinan.

                Religions are mixed. Bosnia-Herzegovina is mostly Muslim, Serbia and Montenegro are mostly Serbian, and Croatia and Dalmatia are mostly Catholic…. but, there are religious minorities all across the region, including atheists, Protestants and Jews… so not ALL Serbians are Orthodox, etc.

                Western Europeans are, by and large, bigoted against the Orthodox-Turkish influenced cultures of Eastern Europe. I mean, seriously, thats what its really about whether we’re talking about Serbs, Hungarians, Turks, Russians, Ukranians, Poles, Latvians or whatever.

                • brutalface says:

                  Oh, You’re talking about Poland…about polish mentality. So, You should good know this country - if You want to talk about his problems, isint’t? I think, what You haven’t got any serious informations about Poland. In fact, Your opinion about this country is comic:) What do You know about Poland? What do You know about polish history, economy, life or sth else???

                  Little experriment: sądzę, że nie masz zielonego pojęcia o Polsce. Twa opinia jest nie tylko krzywdząca, ale wskazuje, że Twa powierzchowna wiedza jest po prostu żenująca. Nie wiesz nic o polskim katolicyźmie, ani o tym, jakim krajem jest Polska. A zatem, na przyszłość nie zabieraj głosu jeśli nie wiesz o czym mówisz.

            • Fred says:

              I find it amusing that you single out the fact that there are ‘no muslims’ in Russia, when (by CIA fact site estimates) there are 21-28 million muslims living there, making up 15-20% of the population and constituting the largest religious minority. Even with your obvious ignorance, maybe googling just a few facts to suport your pathetic argument would be wise?

              Secondly you fail to address the rapid slide towards authoritarianism in Russia - there are now no independant TV stations; all Television output is heavily censored by the Kremlin, and is used as undisguised propoganda to support the illegal Kremlin agendas, ie. the war in Chechnya. A recent example of this change in the Russian state (which Putin, as an ex-KGB agent has engineered) is the murder of Alexander Litvinenko by the another ex-KGB agent, Andrei Lugovoi. While many people dispute that this was perpetrated by Lugovoi, and hence by extension, ordered by the Kremlin, they are ignoring an important fact; the amount of polonium-210 used to poison Litvinenko would have cost over $10 million, and requires serious nuclear infrastructure such as a particle accelerator or nuclear reactor, the like of which no individual has access to.

              Furthermore, you are a racist bigot.

              • Andreas says:

                You have to get glasses, dude. And a brain too.

                I didnt say there is no muslims in Russia. I said that there isnt a big raise of the russian muslim population, as it is in all EU countries. In maybe 50 years EU probably will consist of let’s say 50% muslims. That frightens me alot.

                Maybe Im a racist, but your a real dumbass. Cheers!

                • Fred says:

                  Amusing that you respond to coherent arguments with pure speculation “let’s say 50% muslims” and calling me a dumbass.

                  “Russia could, in 50 years or so be one of the last white countries. The rest of Europe will be filled with muslims”

                  The rest of Europe except from the Balkan states all have a Muslim population of below 10% of their total populous. And you think that’s going to increase by 40%? Let us break your argument down - the current population of Europe is around 730 million by UN estimates. So, not taking into account natural population increases, you expect an immigration of another 730 million muslims? You, my friend, are a fucking idiot. I presume (and hope, for your sake) that you are only a kid - as your arguments would suggest. If you are not, maybe you should seek counselling for your immature opinions.

                • native swede says:

                  That must be the dumbest comment ever…
                  It’s not immigrants who makes our country less pleasant to live in, it’s people like you. Racists.
                  Sure, there may be idiots among the immigrants, who rob old ladies and throw rocks etc. Still, are you sure there are not native people who does those kinds of stuff too? Gosh..

            • Are you sure you live in Sweden and not some other country where everyone hates everyone else? Sheesh. There’s plenty of room in this world for people of all faiths and walks of life. Take a look at yourself before you start pointing the finger at people you don’t understand or won’t be compassionate enough to tolerate.

            • Andreas, you surprise me and freak me out…For as many years, we (in India) have come to believe that xenophobia is disease that affects Middle Eastern and African countries. For long, we have also associated xenophobia with illiteracy, and fanaticm.

              You have proved it without doubt it is not the case, even in ‘advanced’ and developed nations of the European Union, can one find people who are so uncouth and opinionated and lack culture. It is a sad commentary, that even with education (I assume you are educated), you are not able to discern truth and propaganda. Tell me what is the difference between you and the mullahs in Iran or Palestine, that rave and rant about destruction or jihad, as they call it.

              Let me tell you a thing, we Indians (more so Hindus like me) have co-existed with Muslims for centuries now, of course there have been wars, battles and riots. But, you come to realise that they are not any different from anyone else. And have not there been wars between religious ideologies, where were the ’so-called advanced’ religions, when Hitler was butchering millions of Jews.

              I would request you to please travel to more places on this earth and expose yourself to different thoughts. It is only then you will realise that a muslim is no different from a catholic and a catholic no different from the jew. Let me share with you a Sanskrit phrase, “Vasudev kutambakam”, that means the world is one big family….So Brother, next time you feel like writing– like you have done now — please do not reveal your complete identity, you are discrediting the Swedes and EU at large…

              Chill…

            • OMG… You are the most ignorant, bigoted racist piece of trash I’ve seen on the internet yet. Aside from the fact that ‘Yugoslavs’ are white (and, for that matter, there are many white Muslims), where do you get your racist crap? I mean serious, especially the anti-Rromany stuff. Gypsies are probably the most discriminated against people in Europe today… especially since most of the Jews left the continent for their own safety.

              Remember the Nazis? Thats right, they were ‘white Europeans’ and look how many innocent people they murdered. Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians, handicapped, Communist, union members, Muslims, Catholics, and many more besides. AND YOU PEOPLE bent over backwards to help them. Do you deny the Holocaust too, I wonder?

              Besides, I’ll dare say that you don’t even realize that your nothing more than the descendant of murderers and land-thieves. You stole the land from the Sami. Why don’t you Norskers go back to Asia where you belong? And take your Jesus-on-a-stick with you!

            • S.Mazur says:

              Hey slow down man, we are all people of the SAME planet, right???

              Greetz outa Germany

          • Harry says:

            YOU ARE FUCKING LIER GO DIE RUSSOPHOBE

    4. Creepy Bill says:

      Really funny stuff, I got my eye on you!

    5. Creepy Bill says:

      I’ve heard Putin likes sex with little boys.

    6. Creepy Bill says:

      I’ve heard Putin likes sex with little boys.;

    7. putinski says:

      Wow, Russian propaganda has moved into the modern era. This was a story about someone protesting Putin’s rule, presumably with a list of legitimate gripes, and the Russian media successfully turned this into a comedic story about some guy with bug-eyes.

    8. Tim says:

      This kid is going to be the next president of Russia. This is how it will happen. He will gain popularity in russian politics. Make several speeches addressing the problems with the nation. Putin will be involved in some crazy bizarre scandal. The country will be furious. This kid will begin running ads to run president. The ads will involve this confrontation. The kid wins.

    9. Stephen says:

      Where is the frog from in that first picture? It looks oddly familiar….

    10. selfish says:

      “Wow, Russian propaganda has moved into the modern era. This was a story about someone protesting Putin’s rule, presumably with a list of legitimate gripes, and the Russian media successfully turned this into a comedic story about some guy with bug-eyes.” - i think this comment sums up the situation quite successfully. (capatcha: kgb - how VERY fitting!)

    11. Chris says:

      Hmm, the capatcha’s all seem to be very fitting, seeing as they’re Russia-related and all. Anyway, the frog is from Futurama, it’s the hypno-toad in the first episode with the giant brain race.

    12. love the futurama references

    13. Vasya says:

      Really funny. Especially with lazer rays

    14. Sven Svenson says:

      If I was in your shoes, I wouldnt want my country to get ass fucked by muslims, gays and USA in the way the rest of Europe is at this moment speaking…

      Oh Andreas, honey - how can you say such things? I know how much you love it when I ass fuck you every night! Don’t deny your true inner feelings, my love!

      • Andreas says:

        You really tried to spell a Swedish name, but unfortunatley you failed.

        Thats rather cute.

        • Swedish? says:

          hahahaha

          your funny.

          i know your type, you never got a job becouse well, be cause you have STUPID written all over your forehead.

          i know swedish ppl realy well. and you my friend are a part of a growing minority, stupid-fuck-swede’s

          wanna know something about me?
          I moved to sweden and went to your free schools there, when i was done with that school i left that miserable country(after stealing some tax money ofc) and used the things i learned for free(oh wait, not free, payed with swedish tax money) in another country, paying my taxes there HAHAHA

          the problem with sweden are ppl like you, stupid, bigot idiots. your not afraid to reveal your feelings on a non-traceable forum post. but face to face, your all limp-dicked and cant own up to your own stupidity

    15. D says:

      Russians have the worst humor in the world.

      This is fucking stupid, its not funny in any way.

      A guy with bug eyes…. whoppity doo da… how fucking hilarious.

      And the photoshops make me want to puke, dont these people have anything better to do with their time?

      Reminds me of Monty python. Fucking Horrible.

      • The dude says:

        You suck dude. Monty python rocks, and this guy is so fuckin hilarious.

      • XXX says:

        “Russians have the worst humor in the world.”- мудак ты…Просто мы умеем над слобой смеяться,а не только над Бином или Бушем

      • Padonag says:

        Man, go drink some poison and then smash yourself against the wall! Most of the comments of western people made me laugh even more than all those photozhaba pics… LOL

        Did U come here to have fun or to discuss Putin or Russian internal problems or Mslims (or whatever minority) in your countries????

        KG/AM!!!!!

        Do you think that your kind of so-called “humour” is worth even smiling???

        OMG!!! The West is really under degradation process…

        Sorry for off-topic: by the way a Russian female writer has a book - “Notre Dame de Paris Mosque”, which depicts your possible near future…

    16. He’s an alien attempting government infiltration. You think I’m kidding? Does that look human to you?

    17. American says:

      What is really most interesting is that if you tried that here in the USA, you would be violently tackled and dragged out of the room, maybe to never be seen again. You most certainly would NOT be capable of sitting back down. Glad to see that they still have freedom of speech somewhere!

    18. Alex says:

      I am from Russia and i arrogantly laugh my ass at you ppl. It’s so funny to read BS about my country spoken by folks so media-brain-washed-but-have-no-real-idea-of-what-things-are-really-like-in-there.
      Well, Russia dropped the ball, true, and gone through some weird times, and faces some real challenges, but, please, WTF. You think we are so dumb and retarted? Look, we kicked the Germany’s ass in WW2, we dominated the world for 50 years, successfully challenging the larger part of the planet all by ourselves, spreading the seeds of OUR ideology, we were the first in space, we had best arms, fundamental science, education and so on and on and on. We are just half a generation apart from our former glory. We’ve lost a lot of it, but we still retain some technologies only the heavy-weights can afford. E.g. nukes and submarines, and space (You know, we launch stuff in space more often then you guys eat out). One can bark at a tired ex-bully, when he’s still on his knees, but when we will rise you guys won’t like to make us mad again. And it’s really good to know amid all the hatred by the jealous dwarfs that you can bring them all to reason, if you need to, simulteniously, oh, yeah…
      remember, we’ll be back soon, even more bad-ass then you saw us last time.

      • The dude says:

        I hope not all Russians are like you, sicko. It’s people like you who gives a bad reputation to your nation. I hope you get smacked in the face, joker.

      • The dude says:

        You freak me out dude. Let’s hope most Russians are not like you.

        • Alex says:

          Yeah, they are not like me, so far. Many of them still readily consume American crap flooding the country’s media. There once will be a sober morning without shitty cultural hang-over that we feel every time we touch the stinking contents of the flashy boxes they air on us cheap. And then they will remember that we had and still have a lot more good than all consumerist, hypocritical, politically correct mediocrities that try to bring us down through their blood-soaked, colonial-fed “democratic standards”. Yeah, we are not like you and will never be which IS good. If you lived here for a couple years, you would see that EVERYONE here can speak ANYTHING he wants without fear, and we have access to any info we want, we are free and we live by moral and common sence, not trying to please every pervert or uninvited guest. And we don’t allow gay parades not because we hate freedom but because we dot’t want our children to grow up seeng perverts in thongs march under their windows. We are not like you and i am happy we aren’t. The bad reputaion is just a projection of the lies you heard on your credulous little brain.

      • You are a fool.

        You are typing in English due to American domination. All your blabbing is in vain. You had 50 years of equal domination shared with us Americans.

        Everyone knows Russia is done. Very much so.
        Your population is exiting, Russian itself is losing clout to German.. you….are….so….done.
        You are relegated to being the backwards nation Russia always has been, and I’m a descendant of Cossacks. I don’t hate Russia, it’s simply a true statement.

        Your ideology was a crock.
        Everyone knows NOTHING good has every come out of Russia, why would we follow the way you think the entire government should be ran?

        I’ll stick with the Greco-Roman ways, thanks for playing though Ruski.

    19. Gopnik says:

      Thats for you from Vladimir Putin and all russians http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/6933/foruaa3.jpg enjoy bitch

    20. Gopnik says:

      Creepy Bill enjoy and die

    21. asss says:

      THIS IS AS OLD AS THE INTERNET.

      AND THE ANIMATED GIF IS ONLY HALF AS LONG AS THE ONE’S WE HAVE AT EBAUMS

    22. Tim says:

      Russians are fear addicts, i love you guys to death and want you to succeed but face it things aren’t all roses and sunshine and you can’t accept the dual position that you were on top of the world when in fact you were a mass importer of grain to feed yourselves, you bankrupted your client states to enrich the mother land but failed to create a sustainable economy to keep things going. Your ideology killed more people than hitler You lived in a totalitarian dictatorship and you don’t honestly know what was going on in the rest of the soviet union because all news was heavily censored. I know this because the supposedly “happy” people in the ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania hated true russians for what they did so much at first the welcomed the nazi’s.
      Face it your a people who have not known freedom in hundreds of years and abort 10 kids to every one that is born. Your women don’t want to raise a kid in their world.

      I applaud this kid for getting some nuts and trying to speak his mind.

      • Gopnik says:

        Tim you are brainwashed fag go kill yourself ! Russia is the most free country in all europe and nobody control tv here you fucking dumbass

    23. Tim says:

      oh and the Kid is hot, I’d do him any day yah gay haters.

    24. Someone says:

      Sounds like the first thing said at the beginning of the clip is:

      “I’m a dumb fuck… teachers kid.”

      Ha.

    25. Kleber says:

      uahauahauahu very very funny!!

    26. Е says:

      For Andreas:

      I think the main Europe problem are misunderstanding what kind of people they want to have as immigrants. Look on Canada: The really understand what nationalities may leave in harmony with the english-french-ukranian-… people mix what they have now.

      Close you boundaries while you decide this problem. Get out muslims extrimistss or any kind extrimists. If any madman burn house and paralize normal life get him to Turkey, Lebanon our other country from which he come from. Immigrants must know state Language Sweden or may be Finnish (as I know you have two languages).

      You really have two ways: teach muslims kids or get all of them out except may be 5%. They must be more Swedish or getting out. You may mix this way: get out idiots that don’t want to leave as well educated europeans - dont want speak on state language - out, don’t want to respect new Motherland - exit there. Formulate what you want.

      You are the masters of your Homeland.

      I am from Russia. We really have the same problems with Chinese.
      In Russia - everybody knows Russian. If you don’t speak - you cant have any work. But Chinese make a lot of China towns.

      The main problem of Europe how to keep identity. I prefer to read Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson to my kids as swedish tales, not a new variant of 1000 and 1 Nights (its Arab tales).

      May be Sarkozi in France do something?

    27. Singe says:

      Glazastik’s emoticon is as follows: ಠ_ಠ

    28. s says:

      I think the kid was planted to do that. I mean, who finds an empty chair in the middle of a crowd when suddenly asked to sit down? Not too likely.

      And my captcha word of course is ‘russian’.

    29. Alex says:

      To Gopnik.
      Hey, man, my respect to you, bro. What is this whole site about? Biassed gays yell the loudest, the ignorant have the air of authority and plain dickheads try to teach us to live. I knew their news sources were preconceived but i didn’t realize people there believe all those rediculous lies so willingly. It’s funny to be told I never saw real freedom while i always have been totally free able to do and say what i want. In general, most of you guys (and gays) should spend some time doing some studies of at least a couple sources of information other than pre-paid bullshit multipliers before you apprach places where you can be heard by other humans cause you make urself look pathetically stupid.

    30. Hey Guys, All this talk of Russian supremacy makes me proud. All e comrades scattered around the world…arise…dust up your Ladas and drive back to your Father land!! Papa Putin is waiting with open arms and 1gm of free Plutonium for each of you ! ;-) What you guys saw in the video was my KGB agent deploying the ‘eye-fry’ ray gun at the protestor. As for you Andreas …you will be sent 200gms of Plutonium soon. Please don’t accidently drop it into your tea ! These Europeans cant live with Russian justice… I want to choke the EU’s supply of oil and gas again !…ok guys…i need to go…gota personally choke some dissenters in a top secret Gulag in Siberia.

    31. tryams says:

      All that wailing about sliding to totalitarism, no free media in Russia etc. is ridiculous. You’re are completely brainwashed and naive believing that people have more free will in western countries.
      God bless your ignorance.

    32. Sven says:

      Face it there are problems in every country and it’s good that we can have an open discussion here. But some of you are really just plain old stupid. Please don’t be ignorant and say that in Russia there are no and were no problems. The facts speak for themselves. Don’t be a dick and say that multiculturalism in other European countries do not create any problems because they do.

      The question is how u deal with it… My personal opinion is you take the good with the bad. If crimes are commit, no matter who did them (black, white, muslim, christian) people should be punished. I learn a lot from my multicultural friends and i love it.

      It’s sad that some people here want to go back to Stalin/Hitler times. Sad for them because they are people with a brain the size of a peanut and miss out a lot of the world.

      Please learn something about these subjects before you open your ignorant 15 year old mouths!

      PS: You can start calling me a gay-blackloving-muslimfucking bitch now…. That would really cheer me up!

    33. Tim says:

      nicely said Sven

    34. billiesurf says:

      First of all i think that swearing accusing someone else being stupid and so on, proves the stupdity of its own. Wether you black red green or purple, any color or religion, does not matter. Its the personality that counts.
      Secondly. Its easy to say that multicultutral society has a fututre when you close your borders so heavily that no one can enter. To get a permit to live in most countries (USA, Canada, Auwtralia, South Africe) you must or have a lot of money to enter so that you can support yourself or get a working permit that the state can allways revoce. At my company i employed 5 engineers from 3 different countries and all are good employees. But it was hard to get them in the USA. Multicultural societies work only if you protect your labour markets at least a bit. Finally i whish everybody a nice life in a peacefull world (lets hope for it).

    35. Alex says:

      I assume the Stalin-Hitler part refers to me cuz one could trace some allusions in part of my words and would basically be right, at least as far as the former is concerned. (Let’s pretend there was no sarcasm in my previous posts. I made just a couple and noticed there was another Alex on this thread. I am the bad one). It amazes me again and again how some folk are so assured of their knowledge of the past and the present of the country they just read about or, at best, quickly toured. What do you guys know about Stalin, or totalitarism, or oppression in Russia? Did you experience it back then or do now? Do you personally know the authors of the crappy history books and articles you’ve read? Are they decent, trustworthy people? How many Russian words do the Russia bashers on your TV know? Are they totally independent and objective and thinking? Do they use facts or rumours? Or may be they just read somebody else’s agendas? Look, all my adult life I’ve worked with foreigners coming to Russia and I haven’t met a single person whose knowledge and perception of Russia and its real problems hadn’t been crippled and perverted buy mass media. You speak about the western free press but it proves to be freak press time and again. I was born during the rise of communism, grew up when it was falling, went to University when Russia was searching a new way, got married and started to work when it became a capitalist jungle and now, having been around the block a while and experiencing life in Russia in a couple of its forms and knowing some of its people of all ages and circles to an extent, I think i have a right to say i have a little better knowledge of this country then most of you. Having no intention to defend Russia (I can see no guilt in the first place), but out of compassion for your ignorance (no offence), i say to you: you are much more wrong then right. You think that we have problems with some things not understanding that the vast majority of Russians don’t consider them problems because they don’t give a damn for THE things themselves. Don’t apply your standards to us cos we are entierly different. We are white, but we have entierly different mentality and values, better values, believe me. Many of us still don’t know how to live and how to behave cos they were taught to be honest, sincere, compassionate, straightforward, have ideals, help your fellowman, share, respect parents and elders, be law-obedient, you know, that kind of stuff. These qualities make you starve in the jungle. Russia may seem oppressed for the eyes of a westerner, but believe me I’ve lived here all my life and there wasn’t a single moment when i felt even the slightest oppression. If TV is all you rely on, then you are truly oppressed, no matter where you live. So just remember: when it comes to Russia, don’t believe ANYONE. Better ask a Russian what the deal is. Not me of course, I discredited myself enough by being a patriot and in the modern world it’s too bad a sin - to speak positively of Russia. Try to understand one thing – Russia is hated, slandered, put down, and confronted not because it is evil but because it’s good, way too good. And it wants to be rich, strong and independent again. These are its baddest, unforgivable sins. That is why you get a picture you used to get and will always be getting.

    36. So, how many of you webernet people came here through AOTS? Funny stuff, huh?

      If you have to ask, it means you didn’t, so please don’t bother. ;_;

    37. Gerhard says:

      Thank you for a very entertaining read!

      As for the crazy Swede, I say “Hej!”. Underneath the bigotry is a shred of truth. Stockholm is becoming like many other large cities, in that there are many poor migrants living there, and they are not blending in, culturally. His country is evolving to something other than what it has been. Much of the USA is like this as well, as more Hispanic influence comes every year. Most people have no problem with these changes, as it has always been evolving, but many are angry over the new folks breaking social services systems while not paying into it. US citizens do fear more of the extremists will move to the big cities, and blow up their brain-washed dumb-asses, like they have taught their children to do for generations. We humans are such idiots.

      The Russian comments are also very entertaining. Russia is not as rich, and not as free as he makes it sound (he’s probably one of the thieves who you must bribe on the highway). As they might say in Poland “Dupa!”.

    38. Alexey_Malk says:

      It is a shame that photoshopers forgot Cthulhu =). Thank you =).

    39. joe says:

      Sorry folks, this is not funny it’s more a mind control stuff.
      Glazastik is sitting very close to the activist on a purpose and doing big eyes also on purpose, remember as your mom did ;-)

    40. free man says:

      russia: nice nature, idiot people

    41. SamD says:

      I think this is the next big challenge we have as a race - working out how to live in harmony in what is becoming more of a melting pot of very different and occasionally incompatible cultures.

      I would suggest the following ideas to address this:

      - Have limits on immigration from each country - each country has a quota of people able to move from that country - then you dont have one huge influx from a single region banding together and isolating itself from the host country.

      - Strict background checks - ex convicts, people with a history of violent behaviour etc should not be let in.

      - 3 year probation period - when someone gets asylum or work visa etc they should be on probation - any anti social behaviour or criminal activity - zero tolerance - you’re out.

      Its easy to be airy fairy politically correct and say these would be draconion measures etc etc but the point is there is an issue with failed immigration policies in many western countries - you can either ignore it and pretend it doesnt exist and that we all live in carebear land - or accept the harsh reality of the situation and try to put measures in place that ensure that we as a society can grow and adapt to change and embrace cultural diversity but at a rate which is digestible, manageable and will not cause more harm than good in the long run.

      Apologies for the rambling nature of the response :)

    42. И нехуй ржать, пендосы!
      У нас в России и не такие чуда чудные есть.

    43. daqian says:

      it’s awesome,really funny!!!

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