A great place for those who long for the Soviet Union.
If the Soviet Union existed today, he would look like? The deficit in the shop, bread coupons, farms and everywhere portraits of Lenin and Stalin? Maybe he looked like a China: all the computerization, advanced technologies, equality… But in North Korea communism on every corner. It’s not a Museum, but a real living town.
Here take out tourists and nostalgic citizens. I too went now I will show you how to live the red city of China.
1 From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. It seems the revived poster socialist era. Smooth paths, is planted with trees, all steadily and without fuss.
2 City Nanji in the province of Henan is called the last stronghold of the Chinese Maoists, followers of comrade Mao. The walls of the houses are decorated with slogans, on wide roads, almost no cars, and the mechanical controllers in white gloves only recently replaced by a modern traffic light.
3 that in China, communism is one big stereotype. Yes, there are symbols, Yes, money is depicted Mao Zedong and the ruling power is called the Communist party of China. But all this cover. In reality, China’s been capitalist world. This manifests itself in everything.
4 not here: a “red” city has preserved not only the external features but also the very essence of the world: farms, Saturdays, city-forming enterprise.
5 On the main square of large portraits of the leaders: Lenin and Stalin here is revered as saints.
6 Comrade Karl Marx here, too. And at the end of the composition stands a large white monument Zedong, on a high pedestal.
7 Posters look modern, they were made in our time. Agitation everywhere. On every wall, every window. On the square are the speakers featured in “the East is Red,” anthem of China the Cultural revolution.
8 But it is necessary to move away from the Central space, reality begins. Look how comfortable a pedestrian crossing!
9 Entrance to the city Park of culture and rest, the screen is not working.
10 For the visitors built a track, but they still crammed straight. Fences on them!
11 In the school are coming with the brooms. On duty. The one whose turn it is, brings a broom and cleans the area.
12 the appearance of the alien in the box office called the Chinese children hysteria. It is as if in 70-e years in school somewhere near Saratov fell a couple of American tourists.
13 Surprised that children do not wear red pioneer ties. The tradition is still alive in many parts of China, I saw red ties even in the foothills of Tibet. But not here.
14 you Do not have the impression that this is just exactly like Soviet Russia, only the inscriptions in a strange language?
15 Absolute visual blueprint of the USSR.
16 Men engaged in the repair of the motorcycle “in the garage”.
17 a Grocery store and he, as two drops of water similar to the Soviet supermarket. These strips, drawn with glass paint, I will never forget.
18 And inside-the deficit!
19 Meat, milk and frozen goods not delivered. There are noodles, toothbrushes, snacks-chips and vodka. For vodka a separate Department.
20 My attention was drawn to the kiosk on the other side of the road. Its Windows were closed with thick curtains, but the window was constantly approached by people that took something and left. I decided to get closer.
21 it sold bread, white bread.
22 And not even sold and gave out coupons! Money can buy anything. We were hungry, the woman took pity and gave the bun. Bread in China is completely tasteless, but in an empty stomach fell good.
23 In the village there is a dining room. But to dine in it will fail.
24 In General there is no place to dine. Usually in China on every corner restaurants, cafes or street stalls with kebabs. Not only the Communists.
25 And now the fun begins. I got to where outsiders are not. The asphalt ended abruptly, I found myself between two residential neighborhoods. It was under the old lady with a shovel. She sprinkled sand on deep pits to somehow fix the road.
26 I wandered into the area of collective gardens, plants bred in old bathrooms, full land. There was a dead end, I had to go back.
27 Sidewalks in residential areas. The popular trail is not overgrown.
28 In modern high-rise building toilets located on the street.
29 Corridor system hostels. Everything is also very familiar.
30 the Balconies full of junk. But not glazed: forbidden, not to show off.
31 And everywhere Mao, the Great helmsman, the sun of the nation.
32 the Sun is somehow portrayed all the time at sunset.
33 actually, this is sunset. No matter how trying to save the city the Communists, fewer people want to participate in this experiment.
34 Beyond the Central, refined parts, is quite a different picture.
35 If what you’ve seen before, can be compared to the USSR in 80-e years of the last century, a little further, start dashing nineties. The streets turned into an endless Bazaar, sell directly from the ground, throw the trash here. Yes, most of China looked ten years ago. But today a similar picture where little seen.
36 Sitting in the yard talking to the grandmother for sure how low today’s young people, some drug addicts and prostitutes.
37 In any town a little bit of China will have its own new area: huge areas of new buildings, often fully prepared, but not yet populated. Nanji hangs above a five-story high unfinished building: it is just one, and then failed to finish. And I want to add — well, you know, the country fell apart, ran out of money…
38 And here dirty. Hell, like dirt dirty. On the outskirts of the same cesspool as the center of the sample purity. Why such a sharp contrast, I don’t understand.
39 the city of the Communists vague prospects. On the one hand, there is develop red tourism, which brings income to a small budget. On the other — the people have had enough of socialist realism, and want to live in the modern world. Mess well as the transition period. Greater China becomes cleaner and well-groomed every year.
