When I was a school girl and learned English, we had several topics to study in our English class. "London - city of contrasts" and "New York - city of contrasts" were among them. They were about rich cities where poor proletariat was suffering and struggling for the lives and piece of bread in luxury world of bourgeoisie.
I thought about my school time yesterday, when I took an excursion to GUM, our oldest and most famous shopping mall, located on the other side of Red square from Kremlin.
And then I saw it, in the middle of GUM passage. The Christmas tree decorated with the winter bird house made of milk carton from 70-ties (then it was the only milk opportunity we had in the shops) - in front of the luxury shop glass window.
14 comments:
Great!
A good illustration that there are things that are common worldwide.
Interesting post, It makes one think.
Sounds like interesting reading material!
Moscow -- now, city of contrasts.
amazing entry of yours !
daily athens photo
Enjoyable and honest post.
We were raised to be wary of each other, you and I, though WWII allies.
Now you and I are friends - not
on other sides of a wall.
Good change can come!
enjoyable catching up on your posts that I'd missed. Important to see the older survivals in your city & mine too :-)
irony is not dead.
Hi Irina! I’m so happy to be here after my accident ;)
Amazing shot! GUM is much different nowadays... ;)
Blogtrotter Two is around Scandola. Fabulous! Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Great post.. First time on your blog and its very interesting for me to see your daily moscow life..
Greetings from Switzerland
Yvonne & Raphael
The culture is as interesting as the buildings! Hope you are well, Irina.
C'est une décoration originale, mais tu as raison, peut-être pas de très bon goût.
neat shot and interesting story !
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