Literacy Slump
The Soviet Union
Was known to be a country
Of avid readers.
Banning and censorship
Only made them more avid.
If you wanted it,
you could get it.
Now, they can get hold of everything
But all you see now
on the metro
is 99 Russians
reading Paulo Coelho. The hundredth is reading Jackie Collins
That's not true! At least one is reading Dostoevsky!
ReplyDeletehaha...I hope so ;-) me too! My main fault is generalising (among many other faults). Your reaction proved me wrong. I am sure many Russians are reading great literature. They are perhaps just too tired to read it on the metro.
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