I've popped around to a lot of craigslist pages both foreign and domestic, and I have to say that Russia's List is by far one of my personal favorites. I've come to believe, as I'm sure a lot of people have by now, that the reason the USSR and USA had such an adversarial relationship after World War II was because our two cultures are so much alike. Sure, some of the details are different. We're beer people, they're vodka people. They love potatoes, we love corn. They wanted a government that screwed corporations and we then (as now) supported corporations that collectively screwed our government. But America and Russia have so much in common, especially since the fall of Soviet communism. Both of our societies love supermodels, ill-advised wars and are proud of the fact that the middle of both our countries is comprised of large swathes of backward, useless nothingness. Perhaps that's why craigslist Russia has such a high quotient of ridiculous and awful material. RusskieList is just as insane as America's, which is why I love it.

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I was gonna write something about this post but then some JERK had the unbelievable GALL to write it in some indecipherable moon-language. I swear, the nerve of these Russians. First they send spies to our country and now they don't even have the decency to post to craigslist in a language that makes it easy for me to mock them! But seriously, craigslist Russia is one of the few non-US Lists that has a fair amount of content in its country's native language. It's so disappointing to visit a foreign craigslist page only to find a bunch of English-language ads composed by or directed at Americans. It seems that enough actual Russians like craigslist to actually use it for one another.

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Right, so I really wanted to include the full version of this post but it was huge, so here is the heartbreakingly abridged version. See, this is the kind of stuff I've always wanted to see on a foreign List but have never been able to actually find. It's very clearly ESL, has the unwarranted enthusiasm of a Middle Eastern street vendor and it's absolutely batshit insane in a way that even the most ridiculous American ads aren't. Whereas the average yankee kook is likely to offer a vaguely Christian self-help class, some nonsense about crystals or a copy of Dianetics, the above poster is straight up offering to cast spells on people. That is absolutely, 100% awesome-socks.

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You opened it. Good luck. Tonight at midnight your true love will realize they love you. Something good will happen to you at 1:00 pm to 4:40 pm tomorrow, it could be anywhere...

Whoa... do my eyes deceive me? Is this... is this a chain letter? Dear God, I haven't seen one of these things since, like, 1999! I know it's a silly stereotype that Eastern European countries don't get Western cultural trends until at least a decade after they're relevant, but this is pretty hard to ignore. Do you readers know what this means? It means that we all need to go to Russia RIGHT NOW if we want to catch all the crazy rave parties that should be going on in warehouses all over the country.

There are so many wonderfully crazy things on craigslist Russia that we'll be visiting some of the sites deposited all over its pages for weeks to come during our Monday feature. Dasvidaniya!