I remember when the USA news never showed
beautiful Russian women on TV.
All we saw were old women babushkas,
which gave the impression
there were no beautiful women in Russia.
As an unworldly, young guy, I believed that
until when I was working in jewelry store in Chicago
a beautiful Russian woman strolled through the doors
and bought some jewelry from me.
I was stunned. I thought she was a Russian anomaly among all the
unattractive Russian women.
Then the Iron Curtain fell and the news began
showing Russian supermodels on the news
gracing cat walks in Paris, London and Milan,
as if with a wave of a wand,
magically Russian babushkas morphed into beautiful women.
Now I think the government propagandists
were afraid if American men
got even fleeting glimpses of
how mind blowingly beautiful Russian women were
we would have all defected to Russia
driven mad by their siren like beauty
desperately hoping to win the love of one.
Bob Boyd