In Belarus signs of Soviet era communism are omnipresent, almost as if it has not disappeared, and riding through the countryside you can see the last surviving specimins of even the rarest of the communist world’s endangered socialist creatures, such as collective farming. This is an example of one of the many concrete monuments marking Stalin-era farming collectives, all very much still in active operation. Belarus is not really geared towards tourism, so the first night I found a room at a truck stop not too far outside Minsk, where the bed sheets smelled of beef fat and I was the only guest. I had a potato pancake dinner in the restaurant where at one point I noticed that everyone in the place except for me had a cigarette in their hand. (12-18-04)
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Collective Farm, Belarus |
