English humor is very peculiar, no wonder it stands in a separate category. British satirists from News Thump decided to make fun of the large-scale Russian exercises "Vostok-2018", as well as over Western experts, who followed the combat maneuvers with their mouths open, calling them "Kremlinists". The authors of the article themselves also decided to play as Moscow experts and share their own impressions of what they saw..
One of the journalists wrote, that many, who followed the exercises "Vostok-2018", "the roof went", the rest got off "easy" - they are just injured. The author of the article focuses on, that the official version of Russia sounded like "large-scale exercises in the field of saber-rattling with the participation of equipment and a huge number of people, running around in the forest", but no one warned them about, that the military would be wearing "short and tight-fitting shorts".
News Thump tried to make a joke about it, that the teachings were a "congress of fetishists, passionate about sex role-playing in anthropomorphic animal costumes". Journalists even allegedly attached a satellite photo to the article., which "refused to comment on the Kremlin". At the end of the article, its authors allowed to sum up the protracted unsuccessful joke with a paragraph about, that “Vostok-2018 is still a real “healthy, male activity".
obviously, that English humor is going through hard times. Despite this, that fact, that Russian exercises are being followed not only by Western specialized publications, but also satirical entertainment portals, says, that Vostok-2018 was able to attract the attention of even those, who is far from military subjects. The very manners, held in the Far East and Siberia, became the largest 1981 of the year.
