Have A Safe Trip

The story has entered its second phase.

I've watched it about five times. It’s balm for the soul. My homeland. Look how much nicer Domodedovo has become under Putin. Take what was once the city’s busiest, most modern airport, wrest it from its owners, nationalize it—and crash and burn.

The beginning of ruin. Yes, total ruin is a long process—back then, seventy years passed from the NEP to Bush’s “chicken legs”—but it’s inevitable. And now NEP 2.0 has also come to an end. History has entered its second spiral…

Why do you need an airport if you have nowhere to fly to anyway? A cart and some bast shoes. But the arrivals area—that’s a different story.

It’s just like being back in my childhood. Ah, nostalgia! All these factories—falling apart and… useless to anyone—peeling buildings, broken windows, caved-in roofs... A five-year plan in three years. Pioneers, be ready. Set an example for the Octoberists. All power to the councils. Scrap metal collection. Timurid detachments. Empty store shelves. Food rationing in sets. Sausage once a year for New Year’s. Plombir ice cream. Mmmm, everything tastes so good.

I love everyone in the world—this is my homeland.

Good luck to you on the construction sites of communism.

Bon voyage, kids.

Bon voyage.

Arkady Babchenko, Facebook

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