I was totally grinning when I read this article today.
I hope you too ..
To Russia for love
War and alcoholism took their toll on the male population of Russia, and the women turning their sights on eligible bachelors UK, says Richard Spillett
Tuesday April 8, 2008
There are British men on the run from a pint-downing, liberated women of Great Britain?
While in the field of political rhetoric, Britain and Russia seem to update old rivalries, relations on the ground has never been better. The world market, finally, to come to Moscow, but when it comes to men, Russian women began to buy British.
Sitting with Yorkshireman Jonathan and his newly married wife of Moscow, Alexander, I begin to understand why. For the soup and fish and chips, she explains: "In the UK, all are great guys and girls are ugly. Here, all women beautiful and men are useless." Although I am not sure that it's pretty simple, it might be some truth in it.
Removal of the Second World War on a generation of men meant that the boys were treated like kings in the Soviet Union. Add to the demographic shift in Russia against women, its rampant alcoholism, a large number of prison and about a million people conscript army, and you can understand why it's not quite rain eligible bachelors on the streets of Moscow.
British men on the other hand, it would seem, are on the run from the women's liberation in the UK. All the men talking about their other half said they found a quiet strength and femininity of Russian women prefer their pint-downing, man-eating British counterparts.
"Russian women are stronger," said David Glasgow. His Russian wife tells me it is related to the restructuring of times, when women went out to win the bread leaving their men in the family, where they fell in the drink. Does the new economic stability will disrupt them from such spells is still unclear. But at the same time, foreign bachelors will have to meet domestic demand, and that the British, who seem to connect the gap.
Nevertheless, the country is not known for its transparency, foreign partners come wrapped in a ball of red tape. This problem is more experienced on both sides. Notwithstanding the provisions of Russia at the time is nothing compared to the Soviet Union, many of paranoid systems impede movement still exist. Meanwhile, the endless immigration panic UK makes it unavailable as a fortress, as the once iron-curtained Soviet Union.
ambivalence of the Russian people towards foreigners offers another test. Brought up in the world there is almost no other nationality by marrying a foreign unknown phenomenon for most parents to deal with. This is a local symptom of a much wider feeling insecure countries suffer as their own brand of liberalization brings people much closer to products, ideas and other once to keep it.
severity of Russia also may seem puzzling that children brought up in a whirlwind of consumption that is modern Britain. Pretending to enjoy the soup at his relatives can be difficult for the boys grew up on GRUB pub and takeaway. And without a budget airline connecting the two countries, and cultural differences between them, choosing where to live and raise children can be a problem.
Interestingly, many couples in this situation prefer to live in Russia, not Britain. Carl, Birmingham, who half-Russian daughter was born this week, went to live in Moscow because of the cost of living. "I got a nice apartment in downtown Moscow in a £ 25,000 - that was unthinkable in the UK. Moreover, it is now worth more than twice as much."
Roland from Eastbourne came here for better job prospects. "London was a lot of people fighting for a slave driving graduate training schemes," he says. "There is growing and there are many more features of the economy." His girlfriend was promoted twice in two months, and we can actually save, not to live in debt, "he says, surprised.
But as relations deteriorated between the two countries, maybe a new Anglo-Russian generation of parents and children would undermine their supposed differences.
