Our journey to the south of Russia, which we carried out in the framework of the project “Russia for 365 days”, but we are on time came back home. And so we are already full of impressions and reflections that I can not share them. Always, when many you travel, something is surely happening to you, you are a lot, what you see and understand a lot in life. I will not philosophize just talk about our general impressions.
We were going to take a ride around Russia in order to collect as much as possible more objective information about what is Russia, what people, what nature, what kind of life in general. After all, everyone knows that Russia – it’s not only Moscow and other major cities, millions of people live in villages, towns, small towns. And the mood we had such that we tried to see only positive in everything, because of something, and negative about Russia and so on the Internet in bulk. And for us we must pay tribute, we have long adhered to this view and wrote articles in this vein. But at the same time there were so many versatile emotions that they are bursting from the inside, and it seemed to me that there would be just not fair to write about it.
There is a lot of good in Russia, I honestly admit, did not expect that so much. Unusual landscapes, the existence of which I did not even guess (who knew that there were places in our a country like savanna, prairie, desert, fairytale forests and general martian landscapes. Well, oh, amazingly welcoming, we have already written in the previous articles.
But throughout the journey the same traced trend: even when we told people that we were trying to look for all positive, and from this point of view they told us about their activities or about what happens in their region every time After 30 minutes of conversation, the conversation rolled into problems, difficulties and so forth
Perhaps, of course, this is due to the fact that the Russian people are so it is arranged that he used to always complain, but what we learned, not pleased and ourselves.
And unwittingly, we ourselves began to accumulate unanswered sad questions. Why, for example, we only help those large families who live in the city? Why benefits on transportation, free food, etc. does not rely kiddies living in the village and they have to pay the full cost of the bus, because transport running between villages is already considered intercity And how to be a family with 4 children studying in nearby town?
Why is a talented teacher, to which students are drawn, and whose mountaineering section is two to three times full, not They want to raise the rate, according to the regulations is not allowed? And the salary It turns out below the cost of a rented apartment. And what to do next man? Work at a loss to yourself, but at the same time bring such benefit the younger generation or drop everything and go stupid make money to feed your family? And let the teenagers go to the courtyards to drink beer, there is nothing for them to engage in sports?
Or why the pride of the village and almost the only joy of many residents – racehorses kept at the expense of budget funds planned to take to another city and sell, because the new chapter Administration did not make this article in the budget of the village?
Why on the Black Sea coast continue to grow like mushrooms, someone’s palaces, fenced with tall fences with security, and there, where simple people could have a rest, now someone’s private beach and the pier, and the passage along the shore is blocked, and you have to do many kilometers of hooks to get to the remaining favorite wild resting place?
Why all that was done on a voluntary basis some kind of altruist, and that suddenly began to make a profit, tidying hands with someone from above, this person is shifted, and on his the place sits absolutely not interested in the prosperity of this affairs “own” representative and simply “cuts” with now profitable place undeserved money? Such examples during there were several trips. Former children’s camp bought and became now the base of rest, the entrance to the territory of the archaeological Museum-Reserve is now paid, and the development is almost All tourist holiday projects that put forward by local residents, in administrations are not skipped. And then these same ideas are embodied by someone else and on this is just make money. Any project that starts to bring the money is immediately commercialized, squeezed out in full, without new investments, and then rushes to the mercy of fate.
And nevertheless it pleases that, in spite of all these and others, about which I did not tell, difficulties, not all people hands fall, and new ideas arise, and there are still those who is trying to do something so that we all can live A little more interesting, more fun and more colorful. And for this personally from me Many thanks to these people!
