Lol, guys... There is no Ranguage at all. 1. "Comrade" is masculine. "Verniy" is masculine. But if we want to distinguish sex of human, we write a verb in form that we need. And, well, our feminists have word "Товарищка", but... no, forget it. 2. This is a reference to "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" = "Так говорил Заратустра". Not "Как завещал товарищ Ленин." =)
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Thus spoke comrade Verniy!
Due to Lussian Ranguage, "spoke" is written here with a male grammatical gender because "comrade" is masculine.It's a reference to Thus Spoke Zarathustra