Moscow

As I've caught a rather bad cold, and this village is snowed in I shall take the time to update this thing. I'm in the Tatra mountains in the south of Poland, and have been here for about a week. I'm bored to death but cant leave as I'm too sick, so I shall content myself by messing with this thing.

I've posted pictures of east Russia so I suppose I should continue by starting with Moscow. Moscow is truly a great city. Its style and architecture were designed to awe the "proletariat" and in this respect I have to hand it to Lenin and his successors. The city is also amazingly clean, due to the small army of immigrants employed to clean it nightly. Its also arguably the safest city I've ever been in, as no one wants the cops nightsticking them, or worse. There appears to be zero crime (gypsies don't count, there not Russian), but this could just be propaganda. Lastly, Moscow is DAMN expensive. Worse than Tokyo by far. Really. Anyway, on with the pictures:

Ever wonder what a "traditional Soviet breakfast" is? Well wonder no more! The hotel I was forced to stay at actually advertises that they serve this abomination. Stalin would be proud.

The actual suit of the FIRST DOG IN SPACE!!! This and other treasures I was fortunate enough to uncover in the aeronautics museum in Moscow.

Typical Russian church spires. These are in the Kremlin. The crescent under the cross is a symbol of the Russian triumph over the Mongul Tartars.

The ceiling of a church in the Kremlin. The paintings are extremely indicate, though you cant see it in this picture.

The residence of Putin.(Kremlin) Now where would you rather live, here or the white house? The stars on top of the towers are supposedly 5 meters across.

Outside of "Victory Museum", a monument commemorating the "Great Patriotic War" (WW2) A good example of soviet architecture. It doesn't really look it, but the building is huge. Made of marble to boot.

The grave of Nikita Krushoff. The reason I look so abused is that I spent over hours hunting through party member graves before I finally found the damn thing. He is arguably the one "good" general secretary that the soviets had. So they chucked him in an unmarked grave. (The rest are in the Kemilin wall, excepting Lenin who is a vampire sleeping in red square)

The Moscow metro is the second deepest (St.Petes is the first) and definitely the most impressive metro in the world. Its also arguable the loudest.(Due to the soviet steam engines)

I would post pictures of hot Russian women, but as one of them took a swing at me for trying I have none.(that I can post). So yeah, just take my word for it (they're hot). People in Moscow are very easy going and overall quite nice. The cops are another story.

While in Moscow I decided to go see Lenin as they might get rid of him soon. For those no in the know, Lenin as The Patron Saint of communism has an incorruptible carcass (vampire) and can be seen sleeping in his crystarl coffin by anyone willing to line up for about 5 hours, thus perpetuating the religion he started(waiting in lines) by his undead hairless glory.So after waiting in line for about 6 hours I finally make my way thru the metal detectors only to find that my friends from the hostel are forced to wait in another line to put their cameras away.(No cameras allowed into His sacred vault)

So I go over to where they are lined up and start talking to them through the fence. Instantly a platoon of Kremlin guards swooped down upon me, shouting Dubai!Dubai!! (Move) So I'm stupid enough to say "Yeah, alright alright.." Instantly a paticularly patriotic woman guard seized me by the arm and glowering says to me, "Ve are NOOT so STUPIT as you sink!" To which I replied (lamely) "What? I don't think your stupid..." But it was no good. She hauled me off for an extensive search, which was fun. Anyway, the point of this story is don't mess with the women of the red army.(Unless like me you enjoy being searched by them.)

Well on that note Ill bring this thing to a close, some Polish guy just took my water bottle.