Those Moscow Girls Really Knock Me Out
From The Moscow News:
There is a popular opinion that Russia has most beautiful girls: slender, well-groomed, with just the right amount of that mysterious soul mixed in. They run across icy January sidewalks wearing high heels with alarming dexterity and barely perspire in their fur coats on the metro. Beauty requires sacrifice, as they say. The pickiest critics claim that true beauties don’t take public transportation any more, but the general consensus holds that Moscow’s metro scores higher on the babe-o-meter than any other metro in the world.
One goal of this article is to try to explain a puzzle that male expats and visitors to Russia have been trying to unravel for themselves. What happens to all the babes later in life? What happens to the supermodels on the metro? Do they all emigrate upon reaching the age of thirty? Why are most middle-aged women in Russia squat and bitter, resembling Madeleine Albright rather than Sophie Loren?
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