The satirical YouTube Channel TheNafig (from a Russian euphemism for "Go fuck yourself") posted a video entitled "Harry Potter in Russia" in 2018, racking up 8 million views and over 5,500 comments as of July 31, 2024. Not all the humor is specifically about Russia, but the jokes themselves are recognizably Russian, and when Russian reality is invoked, it always involves the familiar, knowing irony of people who have long been accustomed to incompetence and shoddiness. The video, which uses footage from the movies but adds its own Russian soundtrack, begins with Harry complaining to Hagrid that, now that their plot has moved to Russia, they're stuck taking the metro rather than a magic train to get to Hogwarts. Hagrid reassures the boy that the metro is also magical: it's the Omsk line (in Siberia). Like platform nine and three-quarters, it doesn't exist yet: you just have to give someone a swift kick in the ass to get them to build it (the Omsk Metro went through several construction cycles between 1992 and 2018 and huge budgetary expenditures before being canceled with only one station built). The video also includes a mildly racist clip in which Harry tries to figure out which former Soviet republic Cho Chang is from. In another, Gilderoy Lockhart asks Ron how he is supposed to cosplay as a ruble, only to answer his own question by falling precipitously into a pit. Цитата, созвучная цитате выше из американской книги The Politics of Fantasy #цитатадня