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Filimon Lounge Lizard Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 97	Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:26 pm    Post subject: Dr Fauste wrote: How do you like your new Bronze Statue of him ?LOL It amazes me that people believe that transformation will happen over night and that in a week after break up the USSR would like the USA. First change cannot happen that quickly and two you are not the USA. To many people want to visit a country and think like home. The only things that REALLY bothered me about Russia is the driving in Moscow(crazy) . It seemed more safe than many American cities. I do not why, but there are more beggars in Canada than Moscow. It is terrible here and there is jobs available to work. How many of you have been outside of CIS and where? I've got mixed feelings about it. On one hand he is a part of the system that was driving my country into the ground for 74 years. On the other hand he had done so much for my hometown a small monument on the high street is the least it owes him.
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Filimon Lounge Lizard Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 97	Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:27 pm    Post subject: Intourist wrote: Filimon wrote: Dr Fauste wrote: Has service gotten better or worse since the break up ? Much better! The system described by Intourist is hardly used any more. Many shops have adopted either a supermarket style floor or OTC sales where you pay and get the product simultaneously. I dunno, Fil, I think the more you get away from the big cities, the more you see it. I've lived in Podmoskoviye up until last year, and almost every store there still has that system. I agree that it's more or less non-existant in Moscow, but it does still exist. To answer Faust's question, yeah, Fil's right. It's definitely much better service-wise. Service was a non-existant issue before 91-92. Waiters and waitresses, for example, received their salary not from tips and didn't really care whether you came back again. In fact, since they got their money anyway, they would have preferred if you hadn't come the first time. If you can call my hometown "big city" (250 thou poulation) - then you are right. Otherwise, it's a bit of a generalisation.
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