No Swearing Please...We're Russian

One thing that strikes you after a while here is that Russians don't swear. At least not the ones who work in Advertising and Marketing. This is very strange.

There are so many annoying moments during the working day that swearing is a natural release of all the stress of dealing with difficult clients & annoying media owners. It only takes a few weeks in Warsaw for those with a keen ear to pick up all the main Polish expletives. Poles love to swear. Brits also love to swear. Both Poles & Brits love freedom. Perhaps the two are related. See the link in the headline for the ultimate Polish gesture of defiance.

But in Russia people don't swear. They close down all the free press... but they don't swear. They invade their neighbours...but they don't swear. They arrest your parents & put you in the gulag... but they don't swear. They can follow communism & create famines... but they don't swear.

If I am wrong please send your Russian curse words to pgarethbrown@gmail.com