As if we need anyone to another state apparently does not it?
Well, let me say that our new friends of the journalist ..
WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE'S PARTY!
So let's see ..
The last time I Googled up "Russian Women" was only a few sites that have returned ..
How you might ask?
And how about 7790000
Gee .. maybe something MAJOR is going on here, and some of our friends in the press a little slow to pick up on things?
Or worse yet ..
Maybe some of the features of Western women journalists continue to deny the real reasons for the enormous popularity and interest in this time aimed at our beautiful Russian and CIS ladies?
Well, I think that is certainly the case is "threatened" sound of the tone of the following article in Slate.
Russian-Women-Article
Where did all these beautiful Russian come from?
Same place as unpopular employees conveyor.
Anne Applebaum
Updated Monday, January 28, 2008, at 8:04 PM ET
There was a special moment in history, around 1995 or so, when anyone entering a well-equipped living room, dining room, or restaurant in London was sure to encounter a beautiful Russian woman. Though the word beautiful does not really capture the phenomenon. I remember the women were extraordinarily, unbelievably, stunningly gorgeous.
These women were half-Kazakh or half-Tartar with Mongolian ancestors and perfect skin, dressed in the most tasteful, most expensive clothes, shod in soft leather boots and perfectly coiffed. They are usually accompanied by an older man, sometimes much older, to whom they were perhaps married, or more likely not. They spoke in low, alluringly accented voices and towered over the lesser mortals in the room. I distinctly remember looking at one of these creatures while in the company of a friend, an old Russia hand who'd spent most of the past decade in the Soviet Union. He stared, shook his head and whispered: "And where they used to?"
In following the Australian Open tennis tournament final which featured a parade in particular the stunning ex-Soviet bloc players, it is perhaps time to make a strike in response to a question my friend. Whatever you say about the Soviet Union in the 1970's and 80's, he was not widely known female pulchritude. All you can say about women in professional tennis in 1970 or 80, it does not feature many players who looked like Maria Sharapova, winner of the last Australian Open.
Where are they all before?
Although it is fairly frivolous question (OK, extremely frivolous), I am convinced that there is an interesting response. Roughly speaking, the Soviet Union there was no market for female beauty. No fashion magazines featured beautiful women, since there were no fashion magazines. No series depends on beautiful women for high ratings, since there were no ratings. There were not many men rich enough to look for beautiful women and marry them, and foreign men could not get the right kind of visa. There were a few film stars, of course, but some of the most famous-I'm thinking of Lyubov Orlova, alleged to be Stalin's favorite actress a healthy and fun, not stuffy, and stunning. Unusual beauty, like unusual genius, was considered highly suspicious in the Soviet Union and its satellite republics of the people.
This does not mean there was no beautiful women, of course, simply had no clothes or cosmetics to enhance their looks, and, more important, they could not use their faces to launch international careers. Instead of gracing London drawing rooms, they stayed in Minsk, Omsk or Alma-Ata. Instead of couture, they wore cheap polyester. They could become assembly-line forewomen, Communist Party bosses, even local femmes fatales, but not Vogue cover girls. They do not even dream of becoming Vogue cover girls, since very few of them ever saw the publication Vogue.
It is instructive in this light, is a career real Vogue cover girl, Natalia Vodianova. Born in Nizhny Novgorod in one, poor mother, Vodianova ran away from home at 15 to start the fruit stall outside the local market (successfully, according to her official biography). At age 17 she was spotted by an agent of French intelligence and told to learn English in three months. She, after which she moved to Paris, married a British aristocrat, and later became the "face" of Calvin Klein perfume and to earn $ 4 million plus annually. Fashion World ridiculously stupid and superficial, but he did get Vodianova from Nizhny Novgorod to London, away from abusive boyfriends his mother, who would not occur until 1989. While tennis, for some, out of the past, remember Martina Navratilova, it all much easier now: Sharapova and Australian Open semifinalist Jelena Jankovic both left their countries as children to train at a tennis academy in Florida, while losing finalist Ana Ivanovic moved to Switzerland at 15 where it was organized by a businessman who is now her manager.
In the end, what is happening on the fashion world goes for other spheres of human activity. In the past, you had to play chess or a champion gymnast to come to international attention when you were born in the Eastern bloc-chess and sports competitions among some party to find out the approved export industries. Nowadays, stars in fields previously unsanctioned party crime novelists, conceptual artists, computer whizzes-from Russia, Hungary, Uzbekistan, or a shot at fame and fortune, too. As for talented entrepreneurs, there is no limit.
The beauty of a matter of luck, but the same can be said of many other talents. And what open markets do for beautiful women they are also for other kinds of genius. Thus, to cheer up the next time you see a Siberian blonde dominating male attention at the far end of the table: the same mechanisms that brought her to his dinner one day bring you the Ukrainian doctor who cures cancer or the Polish stockbroker who makes your fortune .
Now all in all I think it was pretty pointless fluff piece that you would expect from rags like slate.
Of course, I'm not ignorant to the fact that in some sense, this article was positive for the advertising he created for Russian women.
But ..
More than anything, this article was completely contradictory and justification Laden rudeness (disguised as a free piece) to downplay the industrious virtues that most Russian / CIS ladies have to promote their feminine beauty.
Cheap Shot Number 1
The beauty of a matter of luck, but the same can be said of many other talents.
Now that statement sounds to me like another perfect excuse for many women in North America, just let yourself go completely (if they have not already) and say ..
"Damn it .."
Instead, they should understand that ..
Yes, genetics will always have a big role in this, but the action is always nice to be combined with some serious dietary self-control and disciplined individual to any external beauty to be fully realized.
So, I believe that beauty depends on luck ..
Fine ..
Then why did she go ahead and do it 180 degrees contradiction with ..
Cheap Shot Number 2
"... That does not mean there was no beautiful women, of course, simply had no clothes or cosmetics to enhance their looks and, more importantly, they could not use their faces to launch an international career. Instead of decorating London drawing rooms, they stayed in Minsk, Omsk or Alma-Ata. Instead of couture, they wore cheap polyester. They could become assembly-line forewomen, Communist Party bosses, even local femmes fatales, but not Vogue Cover Girls ".
So now that it implies that it is not genetic luck, which makes them beautiful, but the fact that during the Soviet days, they had no money to buy the "right" clothes?
Well .. Miss Anne Applebaum .. but who are you kidding?
Man, I've seen it so many times.
Take a jealous or threatened by Western woman and see how many cheap shots she can think of to try to remove her competition, despite the fact that its offensive plays can completely contradict itself.
If this article were football would be far worse than punting on first down ..
It would be more like a deliberate attempt to throw interceptions in the hope of scoring 6 points for his team.
Now with that said ..
Let's just go ahead and completely bury the poor excuse for Miss Applebaum journalism and show you the following articles from the magazine Reason (which adds nothing new and simply quote Article Slate).
Look carefully at the photo of Maria Sharapova above.
Is this girl sexy and beautiful?
Of course, even if the girls as it is considered normal here in Siberia.
* Is she wearing makeup?
* Is it expensive to wear fashionable clothes?
No, you say?
Well, then I rest my case ..
Now I'm sure willing to decent journalism to tell the true story of these girls are complete pipe dream.
It just seems that there's just too much jealousy in this world, for any positive news on both traditional and hard-working Russian or former Soviet Union women ever to surface.
And instead, as more men choose women to look outside their country for love and marriage ..
Unfortunately, I'm sure we can expect more reports like this peppered with sly allusions and envious undertone.
However, I still hold hope that the real truth about these special ladies can ever be said a very broad audience.
And if that happens, I believe that many men (and women too) can have their own hopes for love and humanity back again ..
Well, ladies and gentlemen ..
We might as well start here.