An indication reads ‘Milan costs for everything!’ in store screen of Central Universal emporium in Moscow Image Credit: Reuters

Lei Daijun can scarcely think he’s right here. Standing in Red Square, the 74-year-old previous instructor from main Asia gazes forlornly during the Kremlin walls, the palatial faзade of this famous arcaded department store GUM, together with gingerbread-style State Historical Museum. Over fifty percent a hundred years ago in Asia, as being a Russian language pupil, Lei marvelled at these places regarding the pages of their textbooks. Now he’s arrive at Russia for the time that is first. Together with his spouse, two daughters, son-in-law as well as 2 grandchildren, he could be Moscow that is touring and Petersburg for 14 days.

While their nine-year-old granddaughter You Qian poses for photographs, Lei listens attentively into the Russian tourists milling around him. “I cannot comprehend such a thing they have been saying,” he claims, disappointed. “Back then, in college, we mastered Russian. I mastered it although it was hard in the beginning. The good news is it is all gone.”

Lei’s education, that way of millions of other Chinese of their generation, had been greatly affected by the literary works, movies and music associated with Soviet Union, then Beijing’s closest ally. Přečtěte si více o oRussia and China: Building As they forge better ties, can the two countries overcome their fraught history to construct a relationship that goes beyond governmental declarations? …