Why were the Soviets so fond of acronyms and quasi-acronyms, anyway?
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@sarahdoingthing Huh, non-ideological thing, then. And here was me, assuming it was the verbal equivalent of brutalist architecture. -
@vandeRede everything affects everything
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@sarahdoingthing@vandeRede may have overstated this. Many Rus abbreviations ate standard 1st letter type, eg NKVD. But syllabic often. -
@simplic10@sarahdoingthing@vandeRede Many indeed can be syllabified. However, the Soviets created a zillion bureaucracies, each with long
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