Miss Russia
Posted on 08/30/2005 5:43:50 AM PDT by OESY
For the greater part of the 20th century, Russia's population suffered from the nightmare of wars, repression and perpetual hunger. There was the famine of the Civil War, the famine of the years of collectivization, and the famine of [WWII]. It almost seems as if the relative prosperity of recent years has engendered a peculiar reaction of the flesh, something almost akin to gratitude. All across the country, a plethora of beautiful girls has sprung up.
...They are highly educated, and have plunged rapturously into the ocean of literature now being published in Russia.... Each knows several languages....
"A chicken's hardly a bird, a woman's hardly a person." This is a common Russian saying and it reflects the Russian way of thinking. In spite of the complete absence of women's rights in 18th-century Russia, there were five empresses... who presided over the lives and deaths of their subjects.... [Then] Russian women vanished from political power and from political life in general. The Bolshevik radicals who established holidays in honor of women's rights made their absence from politics a fixed tradition. There was not a woman to be found in Lenin's or Stalin's Politburo. Stalin himself... tended to replace the word "woman" with the somewhat crude and common "baba."
...Women worked alongside men or even independently of men in the most taxing and unhealthy industries. Woman the Hero of Labor, Woman the Worker--this was a central image in prudish Soviet literature....
Party leaders lived meekly with their ugly old wives who never appeared in public....
They remained what women were supposed to be in Russia--mere women.
A woman in Russia lived through her family.... "A man knows the happiness of one who receives; a woman knows the happiness of one who gives"--this was the dream and the rule....
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
This line was in Dangerous Liaisons too.
Where is the Thank you to Ronald Regan????
I found this funny from the article.
"The role of the Tennis Lolita, of the Beauteous Champion, is but Russian womanhood's most public face"
Sounds allot like a late night Cinemax movie...
"With bared midriffs and piercings, they are outwardly very like one another. In fact, there is an immense gulf dividing this throng of beauties. "
The next part will be the sexist men stare at these poor impressionable young women and something has to be done about it.
Where are the pictures? You know the rules....
Pictures please. :-)
Man, what is wrong with you? Where are the pictures?
Russian politicians marry Helen Thomas and date Anna Kournikova.
Pictures? Not of Helen Thomas.
Miss Russia
"Tank you... but I zink my mout iss too bik..."
"Pictures please. :-)"
http://bride.ru/
http://aprettywoman.com/ng.cgi/1001000092895217.23.249.871120302237
I guess it's once again up to us American men to rescue these poor Russian women and make the world safe for democracy. I'm up for the challenge...anyone else? ;)
I just returned from my first trip to Moscow. Indeed, I saw more beautiful women there than anywhere I've been in the world. Previously I had believed that Stockholm was beauty central, but it doesn't hold a candle to Moscow. I learned not to turn my head to look at a beautiful woman passing because when doing so I'd probably miss a more beautiful woman just behind her.
Unfortunately, Moscow is also filled with surly men lingering on the sidewalks, numerous meanacing-looking policemen, and guys who look like mob torpedoes waiting by fancy cars in front of fancier restaurants.
There was also something ineffably sad about the plane ride home. There were at least 5 American couples, seemingly in their 50s, bringing home children adopted from Russia. I know that the children are being saved from a horrible fate of being raised in a Russian orphanage--or worse--but that's what made it sad. Russia has many extremely capable people, and outwardly is making tremendous progress, but the flow of abandoned children (6 children on one flight--imagine how many in a year) is symptomatic of a deep illness in the society, as are other demographic measures (e.g., the appalling lifespan of Russians, especially Russian men and the concomittant plunge in population).
Altogether, an intriguing and troubling place.
Communists think women should be public property.
Darn, a google search turns up a veritable plethora of pulchritudious.....uh, wimmin.
Luck and hard work coincided....you now have the greatest gift in life....
I raise my glass of orange juice and toast your good fortune....
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