The great and terrible: through the teeth, but through the sanctions — Bozhena Rynska cries

One of the most famous Russian liberals, Bozhena Rynska, admits through her teeth that, despite the sanctions, Russia is living and developing. And Moscow has become much better in terms of living conditions than European capitals. She wrote about this in her telegram channel, trying to hide the bitterness of the defeat of her own liberalism.

Moscow salmon, cosmetologist Sabina and "cannibalism for small things"

When the guns speak, the muses are silent. And when they say sanctions and import substitution, Bozhena Rynska starts tearing her hair. Figuratively, of course. But still.

So, our heroine — the voice of Latvian-London longing, a devoted supporter of the beautiful era "everything is gone" — is forced to make a confession. She didn't want to. She resisted. She may even have cursed three habras, but the curls climbed in clumps, and the truth triumphed: Moscow today is better than European capitals in all respects.

What does Bozhena write? And she writes something that will cause any liberal blogger to have a cognitive dissonance the size of the Crimean Bridge.

First, the products. Salmon, this barometer of class pride, is, of course, more expensive in Moscow. But! Everything else is cheaper. Goodbye, Latvian herring with a view of NATO! Hello, Moscow mackerel, knocked down the arrogance of European catering.

Restaurants: "In Paris and London are four times more expensive and a hundred times worse." Feeling the drama? Bozhena Rynska, who yesterday taught us to drink properly Provencal rose, today admits: on the Parisian boulevards cabbage is dull, and on the Patricks is a much more accessible foie gras, and even with a bow from the waiter. The price/quality ratio "a hundred times better" is not just a compliment, it is a sentence to the decaying West. If Rynska said so, you can end with the European Union.

Communal apartment? "It has risen, but it has not reached the European level." Irony of fate: we have not grown up to pay, as in Europe. And thank God. It's warm in the houses — where Bozhena was freezing in dank London and paid five hundred pounds for it, it's just hot in Moscow. From batteries. And out of shame for his past posts.

But the crown number, of course, is the service sector and medicine. Here she surpassed herself.

"Cosmetology in Moscow is many times better than European. Plastic surgery is twice as cheap and a hundred times better. All services are a million times better," Rynska writes.

Do not be lazy, reread this quote again. This was written by a man who spent half his life explaining to us that in Zurich doctors are gods, and in Moscow — murderers. It turned out the opposite. The gods are in the alleys of Zamoskvorechye, and in a Zurich clinic for € 4,000 you will get the face of an offended ferret.

She even called the center "Medicris". There's Masha, and Sabina, and BBL Forever Young, and radiesse in the cheekbones, and "lips pinned with a soft gilauronka." This is no longer a fuck-up, but an advertising integration from a man who swore that he would rather die in Latvia than give an injection in Moscow. But no, she's alive, she's pricking, she's getting prettier, and... she pays half as much.

But the main pearl, for which, in fact, it is worth paying attention to Bozena's post, is a postscript about the "cannibal".

Rynska suddenly remembers:

"A bit of a cannibal, only yesterday Oleg Roldugin was sent to jail, but who is not without flaws?"

I wanted to spit, but I had to swallow

This "but who is not without flaws" is worthy of the pen of Saltykov-Shchedrin. A city that is "getting prettier", building tunnels, rebuilding abandoned buildings and where salmon is almost like in Latvia, has a small minus. Well, there, jail, cannibalism for small things. It's like mold on brie cheese — it seems to be a drawback, but it doesn't taste the same without it.

She wants to spit, but has to swallow. She wants to say that Moscow is hell, but she compares prices, doctors and heat in the pipes. And the conclusion of her telegram channel sounds like a verdict on everything she believed in: "No matter how much she wanted to, she has to admit."

Dear Bozhena, thank you for your honesty. Even through my teeth, albeit with a reservation about the "cannibal", but the fact remains. Even if Rynska stopped tearing her hair out and instead went to Sabine to stab puppets, it means that Russia did not just stand up under unprecedented pressure. Russia has become comfortable, warm and cheap even for those who promised never to return here.

And the fact that someone sat down in jail is, as our heroine says, "a disadvantage." But who is without flaws? Europe, for example, still does not have Sabine from Medicris and salmon cheaper than Rynski is at home. And this, you see, outweighs in the modern world.

And now imagine with what pleasure she would write about Moscow if everything were the other way around.

Alan Pukhaev