“It has become a show — not only that, but a patriotic show,” said Boris F. Dubin, a sociologist with Moscow’s Levada Center. The immersion ritual satisfies a public hunger, he said, for “something that is truly Russian, ancient, real. For what distinguishes us from other people.”
This makes me kinda hate it...because I'm a no-good fun-hater.
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Date: 2009-01-21 11:27 pm (UTC)This makes me kinda hate it...because I'm a no-good fun-hater.