Posted on 01/31/2008 12:39:10 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
There was a particular historical moment, round about 1995 or so, when anyone entering a well-appointed drawing room, dining room, or restaurant in London was sure to encounter a beautiful Russian woman. Though the word beautiful doesn't really capture the phenomenon. The women I'm remembering were extraordinarily, unbelievably, stunningly gorgeous.
These women were half-Kazakh or half-Tartar with Mongolian ancestors and perfect skin; dressed in the most tasteful, most expensive clothes; shod in soft leather boots; and perfectly coiffed. They were usually accompanied by an older man, sometimes much older, to whom they were perhaps married, or more likely not. They spoke in low, alluringly accented voices and towered over the lesser mortals in the room. I distinctly remember gazing upon one such creature while in the company of a friend, an old Russia hand who'd spent much of the previous decade in the Soviet Union. He stared, shook his head, and whispered, "But where were they all before?"
In the aftermath of the Australian Open, a tennis tournament whose final rounds featured a parade of notably stunning ex-Soviet-bloc players, it is perhaps time to make a stab at answering my friend's question. Whatever you may say about the Soviet Union in the 1970s and '80s, it was not widely known for feminine pulchritude. Whatever you may say about women's professional tennis in the 1970s or '80s, it did not feature many players who looked like Maria Sharapova, the latest Australian Open victor.
Where were they all before?
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Here's some eye candy from the article.
RIP Anna Loginova:
I wonder what type of punishment her murderer should get when found?
“Loginova ran an agency for female bodyguards, some trained by the ex-KGB, to give discreet protection to Moscow’s billionaires and their wives and mistresses.”
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Whatever punishment her murderer should get ... he probably will.
“Avert thine eues Heavenward, faustus!”
If it wasn’t for Eastern European women there wouldn’t be an internet.
“eyes”
Hehehe...you mean like THIS poor guy who is doing everything he can not to gawk???
My eastern Ukrainian wife laughed at your post. I’ve often wondered if the German “master race” invading Russia were dumbstruck to find more blue eyes and blonde hair opposing them than (by percentage) they had in their own ranks.
In the Don River Basin the percentage of women who are very beautiful is simply astounding.
Wow! is that recent?
Can’t find a date.
I remember some men’s magazine in the 70’s doing a feature on Girls of the Soviet Union. It was one old guy with a shotgun saying “we have no girls, only tractors and if you photograph our tractors we will kill you.”
How the world has changed.
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