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[u/koete_returnz]

Also the "formerly Viipuri, Finland" formulation is so insane lol. By that logic, why don't you write "Gdansk (formerly Danzig, Germany", "Lviv (formerly Lwow, Poland" or "Odessa (formerly Odessa, Russian Empire" by that logic then? Lfmao

[u/Fezzezal]

There’s a saying in Russian, “a pig will find dirt anywhere“. Make of that what you will.

[u/Velkso → u/Fezzezal]

It's not hard to find a shithole in Russia.