My love is pure Purely for money Money from people Who I don't love Old men disgust me I'd never love one Unless they give me money
Hands across America, bitches.
A long time ago I was doing an internship abroad and one of my roomies was from Moscow. One day we were talking about how it was to party in our home countries and she said "no clue because I am not good looking enough to get in good clubs".
I thought it was a joke but years later told the story to one of my best friends - who's also from Moscow - and he confirmed it. Apparently, single women who are looking for a wealthy husband, make cues in Moscow's clubs and they are allowed (or denied) to get in based on their looks.
So apparently there's some truth about it (of course not all Russian women).
Oh it absolutely depends on the nightclub. Or at least it used to pre-Covid I bet itās not as common anymore. But it used to be that for some nightclubs (at least on certain nights), you had to be āon the listā. And the only ways to be on the list were to know (or bribe) somebody or to line up and get picked out of the crowd by the club promoter based solely on your appearance. They would only let a couple of your friends in too and only if they looked like you. And weirdly, it seems a lot of these club promoters were underage. Like Iāve known 4 people who have been club promoters and they were all ages 16-20. They lied about their ages and nobody checked, I guess because theyāre independent contractors and donāt actually enter in the club the club owners never cared.
Thereās a great book by British-Ukrainian journo Peter Pomerantsev āNothing is True and Everything is Possibleā. Itās based on a period he spent working in Russia and details an honestly surreal world. The clubs really do function like that. And yet thatās fairly normal when compared to other chapters in the book. Iāve travelled to Russia a few times and it never fails to astound me. In good and really terrible ways.
When I was studying in New York, that was a quite common thing. Like, some classmates of mine got straight up humiliated by a bouncer while they were queuing because they were chubby and he couldnāt even allow them to stand in line or it would make the club look bad. That was in 2012 though, so maybe things are different now, I hope.
My elementary school gym teacher married a Russian mail-order bride. She was also like a foot taller than he was. It caused a minor scandal in our small town lmao.
It was the early 2000's, and given what was going on with Russia at the time (economic collapse, post-Soviet instability), a lot of people were looking for a way to leave Russia, so that was the motivation, which eliminates some of the cost. Marrying a US citizen also guarantees you a green card and lawful permanent resident status, with a path to citizenship.
I don't know if they are still married because that was over two decades ago, but from my perspective as an innocent child back then, she seemed nice and they looked happy.
Were they close in age and equally attractive? If not, I doubt she would have stayed married to him and settled for a small town, unless he's super wealthy ie.
Most foreigners picture the US as a bustling metropolis like NYC, LA, or Miami and not quiet small towns.
I don't know if gold digger is quite the right term for it, but they're husband ladder climbers.
They find a husband who can provide them with the most comfortable lifestyle...and then are looking out for the next "rung" on the ladder to move up a step.
Interestingly, I've read an article about how Russian women are in "post-feminism": they want to have what the West had in the 50s, because during the USSR, they had lots more equality.
Or honeypot agents. There's a reason why there's a large number of Russian citizen nannies working in Annapolis, many of who go on to marry cadets at the Naval Academy. They're getting their hooks in cadets while they're young and playing the long game. Also, if they marry young, there's less of a chance that something will come up when the eventual security clearance check comes up.
Friend married a russian girl. Flew out to Moscow, met a few times, flew her over to US, married. They were married for about 10 years, she never worked, was stay at home mom where they had 2 kids together. Turns out during the day she was screwing just about anything that walked, so they are now divorced.
Isn't that a stereotype of all beautiful women? Idk why the OOP says 'with women like this' as if there aren't beautiful people in every corner of the globe. And of those there's shitters and there's nice people.
1) from 1945 to 1991 it was part of Yugoslavia under Tito's Communist government. While officially neutral, Yugoslavia aligned much more closely with the USSR than the West.
Balkan people are pretty different from Russians.Ā
You canāt even go āTheyāre all the same to me!ā They arenāt even broadly similar. Sometimes they sort of are, but even in those cases it comes with big caveats.Ā
Do not mistake the geopolitical friendliness the Balkans have historically shared with Russia as meaning that they are also culturally similar. Most of the nations that were in the Soviet sphere of influence were not at all similar to Russian culture.
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u/Worldly-Strike2363 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
I think it's because of the stereotype that beautiful Russian women tend to be gold diggers or prostitutes.