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tema, they're changing the ceilings at Sheremetyevo-2. I think the first time I saw them must have been in 1984. The impression they created then was that they were a result of some horrible central planning glitch - a pipe factory with so much useless excess output that it had to be cut up and repurposed into a shiny (well, it must have been shiny once) ceiling treatment. Anyway, although I'm sure the border guards are as surly as ever and the lines to see them as chaotic as always (though maybe it's all changed, I haven't been back for over two years now!), it won't be the same without the ceilings.
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That actually makes me vaguely sad. Those ceilings were a large part of my initial impressions of Russia: strange, rusty, unexplained...
My feelings exactly. It is somewhat of a piece with Luzhkov closing all of the "buterbrodnye" and other divey booze shops in downtown Moscow - the Europeanization of Russia.
Those things collected SO much dust.
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