Different feelings and thoughts occur when you drive through Russia, far from major cities. The Ural region. It was a prosperous region at the end of the 19^th, beginning 20^th centuries. Survived remnants of powerful factories and large public buildings, huts with the first brick floor, decent-looking by today's standards. Destroyed, with covered frescoes on the walls and inscriptions such as Kisa + Osya = 19 ... on the Domes, but majestic in their ancient truth Orthodox churches. Looking at those little remaining islands of history, you want to put a sign: "Memory for humanity». But beside those there are rotten huts, overgrown with weeds and parks in front of Soviet institutions, with obligatory statues of Lenin and streets titled in his honor. Here, too, I want to put a sign: "Repentance for humanity."

Konstantin Y. Smolentsev
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