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Ask Radio Yerevan​

(And other Soviet-era jokes?)

Public service radio has often featured programs in which listener's questions were answered. Radio Yerevan was a well known example.

Radio Yerevan was asked: Is it true that Rabinovich won a new car in the state lottery?​
We answered: That is correct except it wasn't a car, it was a bicycle, and he didn't win it, it was stolen from him.​

Also

Radio Yerevan was asked: Please explain the difference between communism and capitalism.​
We answered: Capitalism is a system in which man exploits man while in communism it is the other way around.​

Radio Yerevan was asked: Is it good to sleep with an open window?​
We answered: Yes, but with a woman it is better.​
 
That, plus being direct neighbours all this time and influencing each other. While there is a clear divide nowadays and you can't call it a dialect continuum like with German and Dutch for example, there's still leftovers like Sorbian, west Slavic with an amount of German influence, and also having very old features other Slavic languages abandoned long ago. The other way around, gothic languages as the only East Germanic ones are extinct, but via migration left a mark on large parts of Europe all the way down to Spain.

Always fascinating what a wild hodgepodge Europe always has been. It's like everywhere but particularly well documented. Humans and their cultures are beautifully interfertile.
And then there's Finnish. Also it's fun to play multilingual scrabble
 
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