10-27-2014, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Comrade means "friend", "colleague", or "ally". The word comes from French camarade, from Spanish camarada,[1] originally meaning "chamber mate", from Latin camera "chamber, room".[2] The term is frequently used by left-wing organizations around the globe. "Comrade" has often become a stock phrase and form of address. This word has its regional equivalents available in many languages.
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Your copy-'n-paste was rather selective.
By the mid-1920s, the form of address "Comrade" became so commonplace in Soviet Union that it was used indiscriminately in essentially the same way as terms like "Mister" and "Sir" are employed in English. That use persisted until the fall of the Soviet Union. Still, the original meaning partly re-surfaced in some contexts: criminals and suspects were only addressed as "Citizens" and not as "Comrades", and expressly refusing to address someone as "Comrade" would generally be perceived as a hostile act or, in Stalinist times, even as an accusation of being "Anti-Soviet". |
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