This theme culminates in the following joke, sometimes called "the ultimate Hussar joke":
Countess Maria Bolkonskaya celebrates her 50th anniversary, the whole local Hussar regiment is invited, and the Countess boasts about the gifts she has received: "Cornet Obolensky presented me a lovely set of 50 Chinese fragrant candles. I loved them so much that I immediately stuck them into the seven 7-branch candlesticks you see on the table. Such auspicious numbers! Unfortunately there is a single candle left, and I don't know where to stick it..."
The whole Hussar regiment takes a deep breath... but the Hussar colonel barks out: "Hussars!!! Silence!!!"
Rather a similar situation going on in New York just now. What were those people thinking, putting a vain and sensitive politician in front of a bunch of firefighters?
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They were thinking that Politics über Alles, people would do as assumed. That assumption proved to be faulty, which suggests that whoever set up the photo op needs to get out in the real world ("touch grass") a little more.
(I heard a few magnificent jokes at the expense of the Russians when I was in Poland. I suspect the unedited versions are even blunter.)
LittleRed1
There do seem to be some commonalities between Hussars and firefighters.
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