Scar faces

Gray sky could not be enough to make such a scar on nation’s face yet impossible possible is more than enough to make people fed up with everything even themselves.
Smile is a myth forgotten long time ago. Faces are frowned in deep fear and hatred toward harsh life. Although hard time has passed according to media and capitalism has spread its liberating (?) wings over broad sky of Russia air is too heavy to breathe.
Intelligence is in the same gray hole of dark drunk, and to a bright future one still is obligated to go through the shabby hall .Hall of fame is targeted with several guns , actual guns, jealousy of others and proven idiot government.
Media is full of colors yet everything in reality is black and white, if white is not covered by the smoke of old trains and cars. Western style malls spelled in English –Russian way may ease the eye from grayness for a second but ease for life in people’s life is so obviously missing.
Glamor in the other hand is like a cheap prostitute painted in all colors standing on the corner of the poor neighborhood squeezes any visitor’s heart. Glamor is what others want to make priority in a growing country to grab the chance for creativity from the nation which needs to stand up and take steps toward real growth and development.
Russia, great power, great culture is in the cage of super powers. Focused on high tech weapons and nuke, authorities are so busy with building a super power in the eyes of globe that forgot the people. People are the first to be forgotten so far in any era in Russia. Socialism/Communism was for people against people (!!) and now nothing is changed .This time they are not the creative nation of communism they are just blind followers of the US.
Price tags decorated with huge amount of not Rubles but Euros are like one piece of sushi in front of starving eyes. One can not have it but desires it although he knows that one piece has no value but prestige.

Suffer has lead people to create art master pieces in the past but now Fashion is the outstanding so called art in Russia. Pushkin is just a statue on the other side of a coffee shop in St. Petersburg .Past is too bloody to remember and future is so blurry to see, being lucky is desire of people at this time even if it will be achievable by conducting useless suspicious act such as wiping dust out of historic sculptures! No one even knows why they have been built but they sure know clean feet of these massive sculptures will bring opportunities in their lives.
Beauty of historical touches on the scar face of cities is only reason to smile. Europe is here ,yet life style is so far from European easy life.
Who to blame is not the case, how to fix is the concern. How to plant smile on faces and take off the deep route of negative feelings from hearts? Faces are tensely against smile and eyes are vacant , no light of life nor hope .Long boots and Gucci bags are every where but no village smile is left. Which one is better: smile or being a fake American?

Neda
November 2008/After a short yet long Russian trip
A bouquet of love and flowers to Russians, nation of literature, art and heroes. May sun shine in their difficult life as soon as possible.