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Ekaterina Alekseevna Furzeva [pronounsed - foor-ze-va, whith 'z' as in 'pizza '], member of PolitBuro (Political Bureau) of Centralnogo Komiteta (committee) of Kommunisticheskoy Partii of the Soviet Union, she was also a Ministr kultury (Minister of Culture) of the Soviet Union.
Here we see a limitation of translation into a foreign language, where no letters exist to represent particular sound. There is no [-ts-] sound in her familia (family name), and no [ah] sound, as in ... well, 'fart'! Sorry, here goes the bilingual pun...
In russian we have archaic word *fart*, pronounced - [fah-rt] - exactly the same way as 'fart' in English. Means good Fortuna, derived from - right, Latin.
P.s. Letter 'z' is usually used in translations to represent [z] sound, as in Zinger!...
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