Paskudnyak Putin
by Lawrence Kadish • March 2, 2022 at 4:00 pm
(Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
Learn the phrase, for historians will be referencing it for generations to come.
Linguists remind us that Paskudnyak is "THE most potent and offensive insult known to man. It has so much connotation that cannot be truly defined that the closest you can come to its meaning is 'horrible person'.... Use with caution."
And so with cluster bombs and shattered hospitals, schools, and apartments, Putin has earned the title of Paskudnyak, a description that will accompany him as long as long as there are historians to record the deeds of despots, dictators, and war criminals, who would crush democracy and freedom.
