My office door is basically Snapchat IRL: I tape pictures
on it, and after some period of time, I take them down.
Since yesterday was the first work day of 2017, I put up
the meme
from my post here; just the photo with the Russian text over it. There aren’t
that many of my colleagues who'd recognize the tsar (which I find rather sad—there are Ph.D.s on every floor), much less be able to read the
Cyrillic alphabet (about which I am less judgmental).
There is one, however—as it happens, my manager. After he
earned a degree in Russian Studies, he went to Moscow to bring democracy to the
Former Soviet Union. It didn’t stick, of course, but I don't hold that
against him, because apparently democracy didn’t stick here, either; it just
took us longer to realize it.
Anyhow, he looked at the photo, translated the words in his
mind and asked, “Is that an actual quote from him [Nikolai]?”
“I found it on Twitter, so probably yeah…”
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