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Caesar cipher for KRYMSKA BAVOVNA, translates as Crimean cotton.

"Ukrainians ironically call explosions in Russia or in occupied territory 'cotton'-bavovna - бавовна, ridiculing Russian media use of a word хлопóк (a bang) in a sense of explosion, which is written in the same way as cotton - хлóпок"

source: https://twitter.com/olgatokariuk/status/1557042276869734401

parent yreg 4 years ago

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