Soviet brainrot
"In the Soviet Union, people lived quietly, without hurry or fuss" (Russian: В Советском Союзе жили тихо, не спеша, без суеты), also known as Soviet brainrot (Russian: Советский брейнрот), is a series of Internet memes characterized by surrealist and absurd images of various aspects of the Soviet Union, accompanied by a voiceover that often employs puns or tongue twisters. It emerged as a parody of AI-generated videos that capitalized on nostalgia for the Soviet Union and became popular in early 2026.