Significance of Cyrillic text in Sapper Morton's farm
At the beginning of Blade Runner 2049, when K visits Sapper Morton's farm, there is a shot that shows what looks like a greenhouse with Cyrillic characters on it.
From what I understand, that word reads tsielina, which means "new soil" (and sounds a lot like dr. Stelline's name, but that may be a coincidence). Is there a particular significance to this word?
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Well, "new soil" is almost not correct.
I'll refer to a good Wikipedia article about it instead of trying to explain it myself.
The Virgin Lands Campaign was Nikita Khrushchev’s 1953 plan to dramatically boost the Soviet Union’s agricultural production in order to alleviate the food shortages plaguing the Soviet populace.
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Answer 2
The word tselina (no soft consonants as normal) means "celery" in Bulgarian. You don't need to look for metaphorical connections in other languages: given that we see this written on a greenhouse, it's pretty safe to assume that the only significance it has is to denote what's growing in there.
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