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Wasn't it Solzhenitsyn who said something about the prevalence of prison slang in the Russian language after the increase in prison sentences starting in the 20s? I'll try and find the actual quote once I get home, but if I remember correctly, he mentioned something like that in The Gulag Archipelago (or was it The First Circle?). In any case, the prison slang is there and it doesn't seem to be going away. What do you mean by non-mainstream language?