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Two sentences describing our contemporary condition keep haunting me:
1) “Everyone wants to survive.”
2) “One has to hide emotions in order to keep the job.”

The capitals of Central Asian states have also acquired
such monuments in the last twenty-five
years. The “heroes” are
often obscure, or even invented
historical personages brought
back from oblivion. They carry no real significance for contemporary
citizens
of these
nations. These
nomads lack faces—
or, rather, they are equipped with
average Mongoloid features, resembling everyone
and no one at the same time.

It is therefore tempting to compare the boundary
between Moscow and provincial Russia
to the divide between metropolis
and colony and hence label this as some kind of internal colonization