USA= kill tha insane adolf

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USA= kill tha insane adolf

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Post by SubSonic » 20 Feb 2004, 17:03

When USA started thier lend-lease program whit russia, the trucks, tanks etc where often send in to action whitout repainting. So it stod USA on the tanks which didn,t mean anything to the russians. When the Russian puched the tird reich back to the west, they came to more western countires where they used the roman alphabet than the Cyrillic alphabet. Many people tried to guess what U.S.A stod for. One funny translation was made in Slovakia. It was Ubiyat Sukensyna Adolfa which means Kill that Son of a Bitch Adolf. Makes you wounder.

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Post by AHLF » 20 Feb 2004, 21:53

SubSonic wrote:When USA started thier lend-lease program whit russia, the trucks, tanks etc where often send in to action whitout repainting. So it stod USA on the tanks which didn,t mean anything to the russians. When the Russian puched the tird reich back to the west, they came to more western countires where they used the roman alphabet than the Cyrillic alphabet. Many people tried to guess what U.S.A stod for. One funny translation was made in Slovakia. It was Ubiyat Sukensyna Adolfa which means Kill that Son of a Bitch Adolf. Makes you wounder.
Somebody, please explain the idea if it.


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Similar problem with Englanders

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Post by Vinnie O » 21 Feb 2004, 01:01

When American equipment, including wool blankets, arrived in England it was marked "US".

In British service "US" meant "unserviceable".

I don't believe that much was actually thrown out, but the Englanders got a good laugh out of the idea that all of the American equipment was second rate stuff.

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Post by Station » 21 Feb 2004, 01:06

Would'nt USA's closest match in Cyrillic be:

УСА (moustache), but then again, that's if they didn't think it was an abbreviation.

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