Over on Google Plus, photographer David Recht, having just returned from a shoot in Russia, posts this image he took in a Moscow subway station:
Apparently Muscovites have been rubbing on the chicken for good luck ... when there is a perfectly lovely siska right above it!
What are we to conclude? That Russians would rather rub a cock than a nice boob?
Can we blame cheap vodka for this phenomenon?
5/18/2016, 10:12 pm
Captain Craptek
I hope nobody tries to choke it!
5/18/2016, 10:45 pm
Mikhail Lysenkomann
Captain Craptek wrote:I hope nobody tries to choke it!
If they do, can they blame cheap vodka?
5/19/2016, 2:38 am
Genosse Dummkopf
Mikhail Lysenkomann wrote:... rubbing on the chicken for good luck ... when there is a perfectly lovely siska right above!
Not sure about the roots of this strange Muscovite cock-vs-boob aberration... uh, Comrade Lysenkomann, me just revolutionarily hypothesizing : Climate Change, maybe ?
But absolutely sure that the (indeed!) lovely siska as well as the (indeed!) lovely Comradette, they both fit perfectly into the proud parade already marching here.
P.S. <serious> Seems to me, the statue goes back to the mid/late 30s, when Maskovskiy Myetropolityen was opened and further extended. That is, it's a "full socrealo" sculpture, not a (post-)modern, somewhat nostalgic "citation" of socrealism.
And so we have here a (rather rare) example of a "socrealist" work of true, humanly beauty - not even a whiff of socrealo-bombast.
For crying out loud, it's that type of beauty which you (routinely) see in sacral statues of the Gothic period ! That classy is the statue, the group here - cute kolkhoznitsa, sweet siska, proud rooster. </serious>
5/19/2016, 3:10 am
Genosse Dummkopf
Genosse Dummkopf wrote:... a whiff of socrealo-bombast ...
want some cacophonic socrealo bombast ? only Moscow, only subway ? here :
5/19/2016, 3:51 am
Genosse Dummkopf
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plus spacial look-&-feel :
5/19/2016, 4:40 am
Genosse Dummkopf
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and some history bits :
the plan :
can you identify this ? :
( yeah, sure, the Palace of Soviets - interested in more details ? see here )
the "go" (May 1932), by the Council of People's Commissars,
Chairman : Vyacheslav Molotov (yeah, that Molotov) :
Grand opening (Mayakovskaya Station),
Speaker (can't recognize Him? pls, either see your oculist, or shlep yourself directly to GULAG) :
entrance to Stalinskaya Station, 1950 (hydrogen bombproof, apparently) :
(still can't recognize the Station Master? ok, here your GULAG add-on : 10 years plus, banggg!)
APPENDIX :
Comrade Stierlitz wrote:... I like our Architectural Komrades' invention of Brutalism ... [ here ]
Is the above Brutalism A.D. 1950? no, no - it's Socrealism.
(whad? whad? difference? what's the difference? you ask questions, dear Comrade...)
5/19/2016, 9:48 am
trashmouth
Well, where are the examples of modern culturally sensitive spray paint graffiti art?
5/19/2016, 9:07 pm
Genosse Dummkopf
trashmouth wrote:Well, where are the examples of modern culturally sensitive spray paint graffiti art?
Comrade trashmouth - a revolutionary thought !
Given the depressing absence of real modern culturativity in Moscow's Metro, it appears that Russkie Comrades of 2016 need a progressive import of post-modernishly ghetto-blasting culturally sensitive spray paint graffiti artists from fundamentally transformed U. S. of A. !
uh, glorious Detroit Academy of Advanced Street & Interior Beautification Aesthetics - ready ?
5/20/2016, 7:43 pm
The Red Terror
Looks like a monument constructed to honor Commisarka Pinkie and Comrade Red Rooster for their selfless dedication to the Kollective.
