"Liberating Army"

[pastilla.livejournal.com]

This Soviet poster shows a grateful (male) soldier kissing a liberating Soviet soldier:


http://russianlegacy.com/catalog/images/soviet_collection/postcards/C960.jpg

What does the caption read?

Stress shift

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

I’ve been taking a first semester Russian course, and have found myself often wondering: did Russian undergo a stress shift at some point after French (or English) had already borrowed words? I asked my teacher this, but she’s a grad student in literature, not linguistics, and didn’t have an answer.

E.t.a.: I’m mostly confused by the stress of English words derived from Russian, e.g., “Russia” and “babushka”, having different stresses than the original Russian words.

Пища -or- Еда

[david-us.livejournal.com]

Пища or Еда.

From what I can tell, both words mean "food" in Russian. But what is the difference? Are they completely synonymous and, therefore, interchangeable?

Thanks!