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RUSSIANS ARE CRAZY
I guess that’s what makes them so appealing.
Russians are crazy. I guess that’s what makes them so appealing. I once read that the most interesting people — read: crazy-heads — are either the very poor or the very rich. It’s the middle-class blokes that are boring. They can’t stop talking about this stock or house prices going up or who’s going to win the next year’s elections. You know, the climbers.
But the poor and the rich? They live on a different planet.
Well, Russia has both of these extremes. Nothing in-between. You’ve got the filthy rich and the filthy — in the literal sense — poor, living side by side. Especially in Moscow. (When I say ‘Russia’ I should probably mention that I haven’t lived anywhere except Moscow and Saint Petersburg and I know that other places are very-very different.)
I wonder what that makes of me.
Where I am renting an apartment this month — I am currently back in Moscow for several more weeks — I see old Soviet ladies walk around with the same plastic bags they’ve used for months — now that I say that, it can actually be years — and they use it as a bag to carry their shit around.
‘Why buy a bag if you have a plastic bag from a supermarket? I’ve paid 3 roubles for it!’.
