Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

1991

Let ’s take an ordinary village in this year, which will later become unique in our recollections about childhood. There’s an ordinary—for that time—village club where they screen films about Bruce Lee on a VCR. The elections were also held there— an absurdist ritual in the lobby; colorful booths, red and blue, were set up; this act was as mysterious as the disco. The booths were spread out, people scurried inside. The results of referendum were published the next day on the door of the village store that sold foodstuffs: two people were against the country’s separating from the Union of fraternal nations. Everyone repeated their last name, that re-settled family of Russian-speaking paramedics, and now in my memory the announcement board is a board of shame, yet actually, no war broke out and you shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

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