The Soviet Mayan Playing Cards
As it happens Mayan motives were popular in Soviet times in Russia. The only vendor for playing cards (as for many other stuff in Soviet Russia) was the Soviet State, so there were only a few type of the cards - just maybe ten at most, not hundreds or thousands as in free market societies, and one of the types of the playing cards were devoted to the Mayan culture for some reason.
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First faggotts!
majkul, i will find you and kill!
^^^ NO U
Mayan culture was never “popular” in USSR. They just happen to print a bunch like these. I used to have a deck.
Who writes this crap?
Mayan culture was popular at one moment, because the party used the discoveries of a young linguist named Youri Knorosov, who was the first scientist able to translate some glyphs from the very cryptic Mayan writings.
The subliminal message of the Knorosov propaganda was that russians were able to crack and decypher any code used by the West.
Not English.
why did they write joker in English?
doesn’t Russian have a word for that?
They have. Its “джокер”.
The pronunciation of the words ‘joker’ and ‘джокер’ is the same)
“joker” - man who jokes.
We have the same word - “Шутник”, “Шут”, “Скоморох”, “Клоун”, but the idea of this game is not russian, so we wrote it in english.
“Джокер” is just “Joker” in transcription.
So–Russia gives the world some of the works of a mechanical genius like Dr. M. Kalashnikov, and Russia receives the concept of Western card-games? Some may dispute the equity of such a trade, but I’m glad we’re here to cuss & discuss it.
You know, if some Russian company could produce those cards again, they might prove to be marketable abroad. Just an idea… Best regards.
joker became russian normal word many time ago. In people mind it very far from english language. You should look better))) It`s written with latin letters)))
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Hey I would really like a set of these, but I realize that getting this set would be impossible, would anyone know of how I could get one that is similar? This is the perfect present, I love playing cards and I want to get my boyfriend, who I taught how to play cards, a set of mayan cards because that is in his heritage.