Why Americans are called "Pindos"

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

They got their nickname for the abundance of ammunition. The Kosovar Serbs gave it to them. The fact is that in the American army there is a rule: if a soldier is injured, and with him there is no full equipment, then fig him, and not insurance. He will lick his wounds for his own money, and this is expensive.

Uncle Sam cares about the safety of his soldiers, and at the same time about the safety of taxpayers' money. This means that the heat is not heat, they shoot - they don't shoot, but a full body armor, protective shields on knees and elbows, a helmet, goggles, gloves - all to put on and sweat in the name of star stripes. Suddenly someone surreptitiously shoots.

They have a lot of everything. Weight sometimes exceeds 40 kg, they live richly. With such a load, a person gets tired, but the toad chokes, and they twist everything on themselves, like Romanian donkeys. Of course, a few hours under such a load does not improve gait. This is in the movie about "Seals" these bugs and eagles look under the duffel bag. There are just soldiers, normal marines. They are tough guys, but not made of iron. Such a warrior walks waddling, his legs are bent poorly, his head is pulled into his shoulders - a penguin is a penguin. So the Serbs called them "Pindos". Pindos in Serbo-Croatian means "penguin". Although the Americans drove in quickly, they got angry, but there was nothing to do. You can bomb people in the Stone Age, but you can't forbid them to neigh. The Americans wore themselves off.

If you remember, 200 of our special forces paratroopers marched 400 km in a day and occupied the Slatina airport near Pristina. NATO intelligence missed them. Natyuki at the airport near Pristina planned to place a headquarters, such as a peacekeeping force in Kosovo. But when the vanguard of the British (especially advanced people on the Internet call the British half-Indos) approached the airport, the entrance to it was blocked, and a fair-haired boy in a vest under his jacket and with a grenade launcher on his shoulder stood at the barricade. The lead vehicle of the British braked, and the convoy commander's knees weakened.

Not only would a guy with a grenade launcher from 10 meters not miss and slam a grenade below the active armor belt, so also all Russian equipment from the airfield looked at the NATO column through sights. And from such a distance, she could well have made macrame out of a tank column of proud Britons. They didn’t persist and left off. True, then the Americans drove up and became a camp opposite the Russian bivouac. The main scandal raged at the top, and our landings received full respect from the local population and, of course, picked up his nickname for their opponents - "Pindos".

Link to Wikipedia:

The word "pindos" began to be used in the communication of the servicemen of the Russian units of the UN peacekeeping forces in Kosovo as a national nickname for all US military personnel. In this sense, the word sounded from the screens of Russian televisions on November 7, 1999, in a report from Kosovo. The soldier said in an interview that this word refers to the American "peacekeepers".

Also at one of the meetings, the commander of the Russian peacekeepers in Kosovo, General Yevtukhovich, said:

Comrades officers, I ask you not to call the Pindos "Pindos", they are very offended by this.

Since that time, the word "pindos" has gained great popularity and has been applied not only to the US military, but to all Americans. In addition, the United States began to be called the "Pindosia", "Pindostan" (as a variant of the "United States of Pindostan") or "Pindustan" in Russia.