"So... are you Polish, or Russian?"
"So... are you Polish, or Russian?"
"So... are you Polish, or Russian?"
Slavic? : ✅
Behind the iron curtain? : ✅
Close enough
The east-west divide by the iron curtain is also more recent being the capital of the not-holy not-roman not-an-empire so
Geez, it's like you go and get absorbed into one ostensibly socialist authoritarian eurasian empire and it's all anyone can remember.
Czechoslovakia was never part of the USSR
This scene sets up Cotton's best line. I guess this version would be:
"Hey, Cotton, this is _____, he's from Eastern Europe."
"No he ain't! He's, from Prague, aintcha Mr. ______!"
Cotton's a horrible racist, but at least he knows what ethnicity the people he hates are.
Why isn't Dale Russia? He's clearly fluent in it.
You, too, can be fluent in Russian if you eat enough of Putin's personal library.
As a German speaker, A-plus on the dale gribble characterization
Eastern Europe is just the bits occupied by the Soviet union post ww2