The Soviet paradise where a moral majority still rules
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=622112
Swearing is banned, nightclubs close at 10pm, and Valentine's Day has
been replaced by a wholesome Christian festival. Andrew Osborn reports
from Belgorod, a Russian town where the values of the 1950s live on
21 March 2005
The young, headscarfed woman glares fiercely out from the billboard,
her finger to her lips. Below, her message to passers-by is stark and
somewhat menacing: "Swearing isn't our style."
Welcome to Belgorod, a medium-sized Russian town 400 miles (650 km)
south of Moscow, where austere Soviet values are still, miraculously,
intact. As the nightclubs, restaurants and shopping malls of the
capital embrace Western hedonism with gusto, Belgorod is trying to
recreate a strictly ordered world which most Russians have forgotten
existed.
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