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Putin has slammed American critics of the President as "pathetic, worthless people", which is supposedly a reference to a quote by the authors of this book:

https://archive.org/stream/IlfIlyaPetrovEugeneLittleGoldenAmericabOk.xyz/%5BIlf_Ilya%2C_Petrov_Eugene%5D_Little_Golden_America%28b-ok.xyz%29#page/n3 ↗

Or the txt which is better for cutting and pasting.
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.211266/2015.211266.Little-Golden_djvu.txt ↗

This is Little Golden America, a memoir from two Soviet satirists from their road trip across the United States, and supposedly is very well known to most Russians. I am very curious to examine a seminal Russian work on American culture, and hope to have time to read some of it. I thought I'd share the full text here if anyone is interested as well.

@approxinfinity

An excerpt:

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That book was published before WW II in 1936 or 82 years ago?

Correct!