Video: Anna-Lena Lauren: "They have something with their heads, these Russians"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Finnish journalist Anna-Lena Lauren lived in Russia for several years, and collected all her impressions of life in our country in a book with a funny title "They have something with their heads, these Russians." The author emphasizes that there is nothing offensive in the title of the book. She is sure: Russians are crazy, but in a good sense of the word. And how subtly the Finnish woman managed to notice all the subtleties can be estimated from the quotes from her book.
Apparently, the most closely guarded secret of Russia is this: women are not more stupid or weaker than men - on the contrary. But no one told the men about it.
In Russia, there is an abundance of beautiful, well-educated, competent women - and a shortage of non-drinking working men.
My Russian friends talk very little about sex. The exploits of husbands and boyfriends in bed are not a topic of discussion among (Russian) girlfriends to the same extent as, for example, in Finland. An unsolvable mystery: why do Russian women spend so much energy looking sexy and never talk about sex?
I have never seen a skirt shorter than in Moscow. It is quite natural that in a country of extremes there should be many girls who believe that a skirt should barely cover up panties. Even at sub-zero temperatures.
Russian society demonstrates male chauvinism quite openly and steadily. For example, it is in the order of things to write job advertisements as follows: "A secretary is required, a woman, up to 25 years old, a height of at least 175 cm."
Women themselves rarely protest. They do not understand what the women’s rights movement members are really aiming for. “We already command men. The whole subtlety is to convince a man that he makes decisions"
Most Russian men are very gallant. On vacation in Finland, I am immensely annoyed by these horribly uncouth and inattentive Finnish men who, on the train, let me push my heavy bags onto the shelf on my own. This is simply impossible in Russia.
In Russia … citizens do not understand why they need to serve a society that does not serve them. State and municipal employees are deeply despised, it is believed that their only task is to take care of their own benefit and steal as much as they can.
My old Nokia 6310, the best Nokia ever made, evokes a very strange reaction: why is a foreign journalist walking around with a model from ten years ago? Explanations such as the fact that I have not yet seen a phone with such a long-lasting battery are sheer bewilderment. It's not about the practical merits of the phone, but how you look with it in your hand!
Moscow is a heartless and highly unsentimental city, people here are struggling to survive and are concerned about one thing: to make money … Everyone is in a terrible hurry … New Yorkers nervously smoke on the sidelines …
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