Please wel­come our new author Vadim Costyrin with his first but seri­ous post on the present days of those born in the USSR, brought up by the Yeltsin’s coup and now left to seek their national and cul­tural iden­tity all by themselves.

A per­for­mance at a kindergarten.

Once the USSR inspired us with fear, now this coun­try does not exist. We have the big Rus­sia and a lot of small and not so small, whim­si­cal republics, for the right to include which in the sphere of their influ­ence there fight politi­cians of the super­pow­ers. Together with the Soviet Union we have lost Rus­sians — our antipodes — against whom we willy-nilly matched. It may seem that it is a vic­tory — but Rus­sians want the USSR back, and after only two decades there are much more fears and threats.

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