True story or Cold War myth?

It is probably a myth. All russians hold the fork in their left hand? Ridiculous.

wasn’t that in a Dilbert Cartoon… where Dilbert eats food in Elbonia with his left hand?... and gets a death sentence by ball of mud..

i miss the cold war

i think the cold war is absurd, the russian’s spied on the american’s telecomunation system, tracked that the americans are planning ahead to nuke them. The americans military who had the same mind set as the russians , were preparing themselves in case the russians nuke them and set up this trainning session called able archer. Russians tap the signals by the americans, and was convinced about americans act although the word “trainning” comes out plenty of times in the code.

I believe he called himself Ivor Chipaforkov. His punishment was to be battered at the local fish shop.

I vote urban legend, but it’s not too far off from things that really went on in America during the Red Scare. I remember hearing about innocent people who were executed by the US government in my history class.

@ucme :)

BTW Chips are fries in Americanese

@mammal No!! You don’t say. Well I never. I believe fanny is also open to interpretation. In certain seedy quarters anyhow if you know what I mean nudge nudge wink wink eh eh.

Russians would normally eat neither chips nor fries as part of their normal diet during the cold war.

This is a classic tale; not sure if that particular instance is true. The foundation of it is that Americans used to be trained to cut their meat with their right hand, then put the knife down and pick up their fork with their right hand to eat. So it was told that this was a way to reveal a spy.

@PandoraBoxx Chips are the same as Fries, but yeah i get your point.

Sounds more like Gullivers Travels than Cold War.

Also a takeoff on how a spy was discovered in Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.” Different mannerism, same result.

Sounds like that scene in inglorious basterds. Where the british guy signals for 3 drinks the Britsh way instead of the German way.

Yes, only I heard that story I’m describing back in the early 90s, long before the movie. I guess there’s no way to find out if it’s a real event after all.