Rasputin vs Stalin lyrics

• How many dictators does it take, To turn an empire...:

  Referring to the Soviet Union, which was a communist dictatorship during the Cold War.

• Georgia, sweet Georgia:

  Stalin was born in Georgia. In this verse, Rasputin gives the country Georgia a peaceful name often given to the US state.

• You got off easy when they pickled that moose ...:

  It was widely believed that Rasputin's genitals were preserved in a jar, although it later turned out that these genitals were from a moose.

• pierogi:

  Pierogi is a type of dumpling commonly found in Slavic cuisines, although it is likely that they originated in China.

• bourgeoisie:

  i.e the upper class

• Cause the Tsar's wife can't do shit ...:

  Rasputin is widely believed to have had an affair with the Tsar's wife.

• birthmarks:

  A pun on "birthmarks" and "birth of Marx".

• the war got cold:

  A reference to the Cold War.

• Shook hands with both Ronalds; Reagan and ...:

  During Gorbachev's time as President, he shook hands and declared peace with US President Ronald Reagan. During his presidency, the first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Russia (before closing in 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine). So, "both Ronalds" refers to US President Ronald Reagan and McDonald's mascot Ronald McDonald.

• Baryshnikov:

  Mikhail Baryshnikov is a Soviet Latvian-born Russian American dancer.

• Kool-Aid Man:

  The Kool-Aid Man is the official mascot of the drink "Kool-Aid".

• Дa:

  Da, Yes.

• I spit hot borsch when I'm crushing these ...:

  This is a pun on "beat" in music and "beet", which is short for beetroot. Borscht is an Eastern European soup made with beetroots.

• I'm balling in Cuba:

  Vladimir Putin is the first post-Soviet Russian President to visit Cuba.

• Doing judo moves:

  Vladimir Putin began doing judo lessons at fourteen years old.

• сука:

  Russian for "bitch". Transliteration: "suka".

• I'm a president in my prime:

  Vladimir Putin became both the second and fourth President of Russia.

• comrade:

  Stereotypical Russian and/or Soviet English speakers use terms like "comrade" as a term of address (i.e like "mate", "dude", "bro", "bloke", etc are).

• Who built a superpower:

  The Soviet Union was a global superpower during its existence (as were the United States and China).

• If you're the man of steel I spit kryptonite!:

  "Man of Steel" is the nickname of Superman. Superman's weakness is kryptonite. Stalin (Сталин), the nickname and later legal name of Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი), which means "steel" in Russian.

• Drop the hammer on you harder than I bitch slapped...:

  "Drop the hammer" is an idiom meaning to end something. The hammer and sickle is also a well-known communist symbol. Here Stalin also refers to the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

• Marx:

  Karl Marx was a German communist whose ideas Lenin's were mainly based on, hence the term "Marxism-Leninism".

• a mind like Putin:

  A reference to a 2002 satirical Russian propaganda song that was officially used in Putin's 2004 election campaign, i.e "Такого как Путин" ("Takogo kak Putin", literally "One Like Putin"), commonly translated in English as "A Man Like Putin".

• KGB:

  The KGB was the main security agency of the USSR. Vladimir Putin was part of this agency.

• MC:

  Rap slang for a rapper.

• CCCP:

  A phonetic bastardisation of СССР (Cyrillic for "SSSR", which stands for "Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik", which is Russian for "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics").

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Submitted by Trent Anderson on 2013-07-19

Last edited by Fary on 2019-08-11

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