Post by fiatjaf
TIL: The word "donate" doesn't really exist in Russian because private property wasn't a thing in the USSR (everything belonged to the state).
The closest thing they had was "пожертвовать" ("to sacrifice"!)
Today, Russians use "donateech" (Донатить) - a loan word from English.
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TIL: Russia came into existence by the will of Lenin and didn't really exist before that.
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Well, before Lenin, all of Russia was the property of the Tsar.
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