Spokuha - lit. "calmage". Signifies that a lessening of tension is called for. A call for quiet or contemplation. A colloquial way of saying that cooler heads need to prevail right the fuck now.
You know that scene in any Will Smith movie where the supporting characters are losing their shit and yelling at each other and generally acting like chickens with their heads cut off?
And then Will Smith yells out something like "Chill! I got this!"?
If Will Smith were Russian, he'd yell out "Spokuha!" and everyone would shut up, because that kind of commanding lingo is how you let people know you got this.
Example:
It's 1:47 in the am and your Russian homies, who told you that a handle of vodka would hold them, are about to riot because someone brought along his cousins and the vodka went quicker than expected. Just as you're about to forswear the friendship of Eastern Europeans in general and alcoholic Slavs in particular, one guy yells out
"Spokuha! Konyak yest' (We have cognac)!" to signify that he plundered your liquor cabinet and dug out that dusty bottle of Christian Brothers you were saving for Cape pudding. Riot averted.
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