Polyglot Los Angeles doesn't lack for its
share of Russians.
Check out this anti-alcohol Russian campaign
poster from the glass pane of an LA ethnic
Russian grocery. A Russian refusing a drink!
If anybody could do with some temperance
drumbeating, it's these guys.... but....
well, he's recognizably Russian, but he's
got implausibly tidy hair, a stain-free, unrumpled
suit, a tie knotted too tight to swallow,
neatly diced bits of schnitzel and he's EATING GREEN
PEAS! Is he SWISS, is that it?
No, alas, he's Russian fantasy art. He's pure utopian
aspiration. He comes from a world as
distant from the genuine Russia as the
Big Rock Candy Mountain.
