Semin: I am from desolate Siberia
Caps site: The likes of David Gregory would call this "a good get" -- Russ Thaler sits down and talks with Alexander Semin, a reluctant interview at best, that ran the night before the home opener.
Q.: Where are you from?
A.: С глухой Сибири (from desolate Siberia) (smirked)
The reason why Semin smirked is because it is a stereotype in Russia to associate the place called Siberia with the words remote and desolate. Siberians are also considered tough people because historically Siberia actually was (or maybe is) a remote and desolate place.
From EnglishRussia.com:
Those Russian guys made photos of their travel across Siberia in January 2006. The average temperature outside was -60 F. Yes, minus sixty fahrenheit. They have visited different cool places in Siberia.
For example this is a Jewish region right in the middle of cold Russian Siberia.
Special laptops and vodka
(Inside the car) When it is -60 F (-50 C) outside, the car windows never get rid of the ice and snow. Even when the heater is on to its maximum.
They got advised in one of the Siberian cities to install double windows on the cars. Those double windows help a lot in keeping warm
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I am not surprised Semin does not speek English. His Russian is very poor too. He is a great hockey player but no most intelligent guy.
that place looks colder than a witch's teet in a cast-iron bra! :)
I was just happy to finally hear him talk. He seemed very shy in that interview; I can relate to that, as I have trouble speaking to people -- and I speak English! Just have poor social skills, heh. Even though I can understand that he's shy, it would be a good idea for him to learn a least basic English. Hell, even Malkin speaks better English than Sasha at the moment.
Looks like parts of Alaska. I decided not to go to the University of Fairbanks when my grandmother said the temperature was -73F. Of course, there are underground tunnels to travel between some of the buildings so you don't have to go outside.
That stereotype of Siberia also exists in this country. "Being sent to Siberia," isn't a good thing (desolation and the prisons during the Soviet era).
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