{"id":14719,"date":"2024-06-05T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/05\/vladimir-putin-and-russias-screwed-generation-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T17:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:37:17","slug":"vladimir-putin-and-russias-screwed-generation-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/05\/vladimir-putin-and-russias-screwed-generation-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin and Russia\u2019s screwed generation | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generation P | Photobombing in the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay | Clamping down on HMRC | Fit and leftwing | 650 Mhairi Blacks<\/p>\n<p>You say that young Russians are \u201coften referred to as \u2018Generation\u00a0P\u2019 for having lived only under Putin\u2019s presidency\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/29\/thousands-of-russian-youth-die-in-ukraine-war\">\u2018He couldn\u2019t wait to join\u2019: thousands of young Russians die in Ukraine war, 29 May<\/a>). However, the phrase was coined in the title of a Russian novel published in 1999 \u2013 a year before Vladimir Putin first became president. Its author, Victor Pelevin, says the P referred to <em>Pizdets<\/em>, sometimes translated as the generation who were \u201cscrewed\u201d.<br \/><strong>Paul Moss<\/strong><br \/><em>London<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On a recent trip to the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/article\/2024\/jun\/03\/a-slow-handclap-for-standing-ovations\">Letters, 3 June<\/a>), I was so fed up with people standing in front of paintings taking selfies that I started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/shortcuts\/2014\/jul\/29\/prince-harry-photobomb-eight-rules-of-photobombing\">photobombing<\/a>. There must be people over the world wondering: who is that mad old woman with hair like an explosion in a mattress factory?<br \/><strong>Lillian Adams<\/strong><br \/><em>Hereford<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/05\/vladimir-putin-and-russia-screwed-generation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9891cdfa3fe906963c83c9a9ff54b24bfe766946\/0_363_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5d88f13b57eec272682afead2a8a09bf\" title=\"Vladimir Putin and Russia\u2019s screwed generation | Brief letters\" \/>Generation P | Photobombing in the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay | Clamping down on HMRC | Fit and leftwing | 650 Mhairi Blacks<br \/>\nYou say that young Russians are \u201coften referred to as \u2018Generation\u00a0P\u2019 for having lived only under Putin\u2019s presidency\u201d (\u2018He couldn\u2019t wait to join\u2019: thousands of young Russians die in Ukraine war, 29 May). However, the phrase was coined in the title of a Russian novel published in 1999 \u2013 a year before Vladimir Putin first became president. Its author, Victor Pelevin, says the P referred to Pizdets, sometimes translated as the generation who were \u201cscrewed\u201d.Paul MossLondon<br \/>\n\u2022 On a recent trip to the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay(Letters, 3 June), I was so fed up with people standing in front of paintings taking selfies that I started photobombing. There must be people over the world wondering: who is that mad old woman with hair like an explosion in a mattress factory?Lillian AdamsHereford Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generation P | Photobombing in the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay | Clamping down on HMRC | Fit and leftwing | 650 Mhairi Blacks You say that young Russians are \u201coften referred to as \u2018Generation\u00a0P\u2019 for having lived only under Putin\u2019s presidency\u201d (\u2018He couldn\u2019t wait to join\u2019: thousands of young Russians die in Ukraine war, 29 May). However, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/05\/vladimir-putin-and-russias-screwed-generation-brief-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vladimir Putin and Russia\u2019s screwed generation | Brief letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}