What is the reason behind the Russian government's negative view on foreign travel?
07.06.2025 01:49
Dreary streets. Grim houses. Bright shop signs vie for attention of customers. Many signs are related to the West because public officials do not steal everything from citizens over there and also Western civilization is accepted as superior. Pizza parlor “Miraculous Island Sicily.” Manicure for $1.50 and Massage $5. Prices from 2021. Now you multiply by two but still a bargain.
Take a look at repertoire of the local drama theatre and see how many references to Western culture you find in this Number One Brutalsky Town in Whole of Russia. There is Shakespearean Twelfth Night. On the first night. A Lifelong Dance is based on Isadora Duncan’s book “My life. My love.” American dancer Duncan was Russian poet Sergey Yesenin’s girlfriend. Yesenia killed himself. There is not necessarily connection. So we have 100% drama performances for grownups is based on Anglo Saxon material. Notice nothing based on Chinese books. Or Iranian. Or Arabic. Or any country from BRICs.
Okey Tour Agency. Is because everyone wants to get out of Mines. Computer World services. Buy and sell and repairs. Ditto to the right is another computer repair shop. Fill up empty ink cartridges for printers. Nobody can afford to buy new ink cartridges in Russia.
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Shakti and Rostov region in general is better know in Russia for serial killers. Andrei Cheketilo, the most known serial killer, lived and killed in Shakhti. He responsible for over fifty dead young women. But it was long, long time ago.
Another pizzeria on the ground floor. Tour agency on second floor. And custom made cakes. Mall is called Milano. “Planet Second Hand” store and a canteen that emphasizes meals for 100 rubles ($1). I doubt you can buy anything for 100 rubles not with all that rampant inflation.
Aurora Movie Theatre bears communist name. Is battleship that fired first salvo that started Russian revolution in St. Petersburg in 1917. But next is Mexican Bar (left) and McDonald’s (right). Poster advertises taxi services. They still don’t use taxi app.
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In winter it’s covered in ice draped with snow. Nobody bother to clear snow because it will melt anyways come spring. Why alter natural cycle of things? Cars skid and drift. Pedestrian trip and fall and break bones. Is no worry free healthcare there is cast in hospital bones grow back until summer. The pipe is gas. Electric poles lean like Pisa Tower.
German footwear. Is because good quality. It is 2021. If you were to tell shop assistants that we gonna fight Germany in two years they would laugh at you and call “crazy.” To the right, Curtain City. Is pun. In Russian, “shtor” has root of “curtains” but also sounds like word in English “store.” Store/Curtain City. They sew curtains. Venetian blinds. Custom made.
Hello. Brutalsky here. Let me introduce you town of Shakhti, Rostov Oblast. It means in Russian “mines.” Is because there used to be mines there. Not landmines that explode it would be further west in Donbas but where you dig natural resources and sell to buy mansions in France and super yachts. The hot water mains are not dig under ground and wrapped in cloths like mummy. Potholes is because cold winter and corrupt officials who steal nine rubles out of ten for construction and repairs and then shop around to commission road construction cheapest deal. As result we have rich crooks and vast majority honest folks who have nothing to their name pretty much. Church tell them they can’t take money and property with them to heaven better leave it to priests. The road is in summer.
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As you can see this dreary, depressing landscape calls for escape and what better than travel on Americansky and Europeansky jets to sunny countries, eat Italian pizza or Americansky cheeseburger and drink Coca Cola, fix your computer to access social networks invented in America and watch videos on YouTube, go to theatre to watch Shakespeare play, and buy Nike shoes? You may say: but Russians hate West! Who told you? Mass media? First and foremost, Russians don’t understand West. Therein lies the core of the problem. Not in emotions and feelings but in cognizant deficiency. Russians appreciate and admire West nonetheless. Not China. Not Iran. Not United Arabic Emirates. Putin is hoodwink you - there has been no pivot to China.
In this picture ice is no. Puddles is yes. Muddy season. Soon summer time to repair roads and make some money. It make Russia go round. Mines has very much more women than men because men die in mines like flies. Is because oligarch owners save on safety and men drink themselves to death fast. But then mines closed. Mines is without mines! Men leave look for work. Women stay. One time I want to go look for new girlfriend in Mines but was warned that is very dangerous. Bandits shake down who not local and hooligans beat up.
The road is in fall and spring too. Some of ice melt by bright sun. Puddles crush asphalt. Is boon for public officials they can request public funds for repairs and wives want new house in Cyprus and new plastic surgery. Win win.
Beer, crabs, sneki (snacks). Temperature of refrigeration +5C. Men in Mines not drink warm beer thank you very much.
It is complicated but also is simple. No matter what Russians look west. And they not look east. There is no culture and civilization for him to seek in the east. Is true. I concur. Is the point of the post. Thank you for reading to the end and have a nice day, Westernsky.
Mines have factories.
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Look carefully at communist names of streets in Mines. Karl Marx Avenue, Red Army Avenue, Proletarians Street, Paris Commune Street, Lenin Street, Soviet Street, Workers-Peasants Street (raboche-krestyanskaya). Krasin Street is named after industrialist and revolutionary who represent Bolsheviks in Europe. Buried in the Kremlin wall. Chernokozov is native born son and Bolshevik too. Practically every street in this screenshot is related to communism!
Parking lot for cars of the factory workers. They do not know how to organize proper parking lot with asphalt and markings and signs and all that. Because thinking process is different. They do not know how to think and do things like Westerners. At the same time they terrified of unorthodox morals (yet Russians know that far from everyone has unorthodox morals in West) but more so of a strange mentality and culture. There’s a product that everyone can recognize and then there’s a man behind the product and that man terrifies us. So there is fear. But fear of the UNKNOWN rather than fear of the KNOWN. What IS known is appreciated - see the shop signs.
DNS is gadgets online store. “Giper” means hyper. Hyper DNS. Sportmaster is a chain store that sells sports equipment and clothes. Today I buy in local Sportmaster a pair of discounted Columbia hiking boots.