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All The Clean Ones Are Married - Funny Sarcastic T-Shirt for Women | Trendy Graphic Tee for Casual Wear & Girls Night Out
All The Clean Ones Are Married - Funny Sarcastic T-Shirt for Women | Trendy Graphic Tee for Casual Wear & Girls Night Out
All The Clean Ones Are Married - Funny Sarcastic T-Shirt for Women | Trendy Graphic Tee for Casual Wear & Girls Night Out

All The Clean Ones Are Married - Funny Sarcastic T-Shirt for Women | Trendy Graphic Tee for Casual Wear & Girls Night Out" (如果原标题是中文,翻译为英文并优化后:) "All The Clean Ones Are Married - Humorous Quote T-Shirt for Women | Cute Casual Top for Dating, Parties & Everyday Outfits

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In 1991, Lori Cidylo shocked her Ukrainian Polish-born parents when she told them she was leaving her reporter's job on an upstate New York newspaper to live and work in the rapidly dissolving Soviet Union.For six years she lived on a shoe-string budget in Moscow, in tiny, run-down apartments, struggling with broken toilets and indifferent landlords and coping with the daily calamities of life in Russia. Fluent in Russian, she rode on public transportation, did her own shopping and cooking, and shared the typical Muscovite's life––unlike most Westerners who were still sequestered in the heavily guarded compounds reserved for diplomats and journalists. As the country experienced its most dramatic transformation since the Bolshevik Revolution, she realized she had stepped into a fantastical and absurd adventure.Cidylo's wry, insightful account of what it is like for an American woman living in Russia is a dramatic tale full of insouciant laughter, in which the immediate sense of vivid experience shines on every page. With the sharp eye of an acute observer, she captures the momentous events no less than the everyday trivia: how do Russians address one another now that the familiar "comrade" is passé; or how do you find your way home in a city where the streets keep getting new names? As Russia even now continues to struggle with the Cold War's aftermath, Cidylo gives a delightful, surprising, warmly human view of post-Soviet life.

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Overall, I found this book to be very entertaining and even learned some things I didn't know (I grew up in Russia during described period). I guess, I was just very well protected by my parents and that's why I had no clue how hard it was to get some things....I don't know.One ridiculous thing I read pertains to the wedding the author saw at a church. She wwrote how poorly made the dress and the suit were, that the firl didn't have any make up, how sad they both looked etc etc Well, if she claims to be such an expert on Russia, she should have known that:1) women are not allowed in church with make up2) if you are getting married in a church , it is a HUGE deal, and it is quite a serious matter.Unlike in the US where everyone gets married in a church even if you are not that religious, in Russia most people get married in a city hall. You can't divorce if you get married in a church...maybe that has changed by now. If you were willy-nilly about the marriage, you would just do it in a city hall=ZAGS(the Russian word for it), you would never go to a church if you are not truly in love and fully dedicated to this perrson. If I was getting married in a church, I'd be scared sh%$%^^&. It's very serious. In church you don't smile, it is very inappropriate to smile or laugh in there. The writer should know that if she's such an expert. Only the couple decides if they'd get married in a church, there's no pressure from the family, nothing like that. I think that even today, church marriages are less common than getting married in a ZAGS3) sorry , but in Russia we don't grow up dreaming about fairy tale wedding :) We might dream about someone special but never spend years planning the wedding :)4) it was the first time that I heard that in Russia getting married is a right of passage and that people don't expect to stay married. What a lie. She got that from what? From couple of Russian chicks she hung out with? Of course, I am sure, like in the US so in Russia, some people do get married for various reasons other than finding the other half.....but to just blatantly generalize that way about Russia is very hillarious .5) they might have been not that well off financially to afford a crazy beautiful dress and to some people the relationship is more important than what you look likeAlso, I found it interesting that in 1995 or 97 (I don't remember) women were using wads of paper and whatever else as a feminine protection since other stuff wasn't available. In 1995 I was a teen and saw an article in one of the girls' magazine about Tampax. That prompted me to go get some. So. I don't know what she's talking about. Now, I did grow up in a military family, my father was a jet pilot and I don't know if our financial situation was better than of other families that she writes about. Again, she makes some conclusions so easily, it drives my crazy. But again, despite all of the above, the book is entertaining. The only chapter I couldn't read in full was about the guy who passed away. I could only manage the first 3-4 pages of it, then it got too boring.
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