Youngest Obama Daughter's Real Name NOT 'Sasha', but Soviet/Russian 'Natasha'...

Reaganite Republican ^ | 16 December 2013 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

It was once not uncommon in 'captive' communist satellite nations (subjugated to the USSR) to give your child a Russian name, mostly to show support for the Soviet system and provide them a leg-up in the commie world. But how many (esp black) Americans do YOU know with a Russian first name?

How amusing it is then that the Obamas' last federal tax return revealed a fact not publicly known- that 'Sasha's actual legal name is 'Nastasha', which means 'birthday' in the language of the USSR. And something tells me it wasn't just because it sounded pretty.

Of course it's a family tradition with Obama- after all, his parents met in Russian language class at the University of Hawaii. And WHAT kind of people took Russian in America in 1961...? Outside of CIA spooks, Lee Harvey Oswald comes to mind...

[trisham]

LOL!

[CityCenter]

What a ridiculous article.

[DoodleDawg]

'Sasha" is a nickname or short form for Natasha.

Actually it's a diminutive of Aleksander or Aleksandra. In Russia you'll find both boys and girls being called Sasha.

I have no idea why the Obama's started calling Natasha 'Sasha' but there are a lot of things about them I don't understand.

[Venturer]

At least they didn’t name her Tawanna or Tasheka.

[Samogon]

There are many Black women named with -a(e)sha, my guess that they picked a sound of it over real meaning. Sasha never was short for Natasha in Russian, that part is nonsense. Sasha is short for Alexandra, and Natasha is short for Nataliya.

[Nifster]

Boris, dahling, is dat you???

[Roccus]

I thought it was interesting how it was hidden for 5 years

Same here.
As with so much about Zer0, we have NOTHING to go on except his word....the word of a proven liar.

[angcat]

Natasha is a lovely name and so is Natalie.

[dljordan]

“So if he really had a son, his name wouldn’t be Trayvon? It would be Boris?”

Trayvonovich.

[El Cid]

"My grandparents were communists, my parents are comunists, I'm a communist, and I want to be able to read Marx in the original language!"

He probably was planning to read the writings of Groucho Marx ... which would have probably made more sense then reading communism in its 'original language' (or any language, for that matter)...

[Reaganite Republican]

Yeah, even Wikipedia admits they met in Russian class (linked above)

[Reaganite Republican]

And Marx was German, isn’t he the real commie o.g. lol

[basil]

So what?

I know a lot of women and girls named Natasha.

[smoothsailing]

Besides, Natasha isn't a Russian name. It's Pottsylvanian.

FEARLESS LEADER PRESENTS ... THE INDUSTRIOUS WOMEN OF POTTSYLVANIA!

[x]

"Natasha" is the diminutive of Natal'ya or Nathalie (Natalie).

It comes from the Latin word for Christmas.

Very few Russians would actually name a child Natasha (or Sasha), but the diminutives caught on as first names in the West -- maybe from Russian novels.

Sure, it's funny and strange that the press never gives the Obama girl's real first name, but it's not like it's news or anything.

I don't know how much to read into the parents giving her the name.

If they were real Leninists they might just have gone with "Krupskaya."

[tacticalogic]

So...that would make Obama "Fearless Leader"?

"We kill moose and cheese now?"

[Constitution Day]

Obviously we have a sleeper agent living in the White House!

Has anyone asked Obama's daughter about her feelings with regard to...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Eet vas moose and squirrel!”

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“At least they didn’t name her Tawanna or Tasheka.”

Or Gonorrheasha!

[fullchroma]

Malia . . . Malcolm X?