The Women Of Putin's Russia

May, 2008

We may not like the politics, but we love the womenWe may not like the politics, but we love the womenC *>£ uring the Cold War Russia was portrayed as a drab, joyless place where a drunkenX- A^k populace waited in line for stale bread and tried to avoid arrest by the secret policem | for complaining. It wasn't all capitalist propaganda—Russia really was a drab, joy-^^M 1 less place. Then the Soviet Union broke up and we merrily peppered our cocktail^^^^~S chatter with imported buzzwords. Sadly,...

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