One of my school friends Natalia has been living in New Zealand for about 10 years now, and last time I saw her in person was in 2014 or 2013, I'd say? Do not remember.
Anyway, this summer she and her husband were visiting Crimea, and we were supposed to meet up again, unfortunately, it didn't happen, bad timing. However, she was nice enough to send me something back, some little treats from Moscow that she got while staying there.
Let's take a closer look.
There is a bag, chocolate and a couple magnets. I still need to do the chocolate tasting to tell you how good or bad it was though. Don't feel like eating some right now haha, it is a huge block!
Next on the list.
A Nikita Khrushchev and Vladimir Putin magnet. If you can speak Russian you get the joke. Basically it talks about Khrushchev giving Crimea away or joining it with Ukrainian SSR (if you please) without consulting the people and Putin taking it back. You can read more about it here if you'd like.
The final lot.
Here we have 2 tiny chocolates and another magnet. This one is of GUM - the main
department store of the country or what we call them here in America a mall.
A little bit of history from Wikipedia:
Catherine II of Russia commissioned Giacomo Quarenghi, a Neoclassical architect from Italy, to design a huge trade center along the east side of Red Square. The existing structure was built to replace the previous trading rows that had been designed by Joseph Bove after the 1812 Fire of Moscow.
By the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the building contained some 1,200 stores. After the Revolution, the GUM was nationalized.
After reopening as a department store in 1953, the GUM became one of the few stores in the Soviet Union that did not have shortages of consumer goods, and the queues of shoppers were long, often extending entirely across Red Square.
At the end of the Soviet era, GUM was partially, then fully privatized. As a private shopping mall, it was renamed in such a fashion that it could maintain its old abbreviation and thus still be called GUM. However, the first word Gosudarstvennyi ('state') has been replaced with Glavnyi ('main'), so that GUM is now an abbreviation for "Main Universal Store".
Well, hopefully this gives you guys an idea about why it would be depicted on a magnet.
Thanks a lot, Natalia, and thank you guys for reading :)
Thank you for posting @kotturinn.
What a lovely post.....very much appreciated the opportunity to share your fun experience. Who does not relish receiving a care package in the post?
Yes...we appreciated learning something new.
Very kind of you. All the best. Cheers.
You're very much welcome! I love getting mail from friends and sending them some things in return as well.
Have a great day!
Hi kotturinn... Gifts are always great if it is small or big, it gives a lot of pleasure ... And when it is from a school friend then these gifts multiples the pleasure of receiver....You didn't till us the taste , but we hope these chocolate will be sweetest like you... Natalia is great that she remember you from the other side of the planet... have a great time @kotturinn...
Yeah it's super nice of her to send me gifts from across the planet!
For some reason I wasn't really into chocolate lately, probably because I ate a lot recently haha. I'm sure it's good, the packaging looks fancy haha
Kotturinn It feels very nice, when I read your post with my first cup of tea ... and when it is about sweet things like chocolates.... then it gives more sweeter taste haha ....
Awesome! Make sure you have some actual chocolate next time! It's good :)
Malls in the US are so ugly! Look at that mall there! Wow. Also, that brick of chocolate wouldn't last long in my house. Moderation? What's that?
I haven't been to too many malls in the US, but I do agree they all look kinda the same haha. I love chocolate as well, but recently I had quite a lot of it haha
Fantastic travel and good work..!
Always be Happy and keep it up
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Yeah, who doesn't like to get cool things in the mail! Thanks!
The Russians are now coming in international packages. Let them not interfere in your life :p
Did you know you're speaking to a Russian? Haha
damn lol. Love from a Trump fan.
Okay haha thanks.
I love Russia, its people and culture.
Lived there almost 11 years,
Wow, that is a long time, I am happy you enjoyed your stay. Do you still have many friends over there? What part of Russia did you live in?
No not, because it was long time ago,
Back in 1984 i was a student of MSU, learning prof russian language
for international relations
I am an afghan by origin.
Oh i see, for some reason I thought it was recently that you lived there, my bad!
What a thoughtful friend! Wish I got lucky packets from overseas! lol
Gotta make some friends! Seemit is a good place for it :)
True Friends will come back and support you @kotturinn , happy to read this post
Thank you! It is pretty cool to receive goodies from abroad and of course to mail something back!
wow chocolate, fantastic. Love it much
Agreed! I love chocolate as well! Has had too much of it lately though haha
Прикольные магнитики:)
Ага, смешные хахаха
That's really cool. Packages are always fun :)
Yup! Now I gotta come up with something to mail her back!
this post is very interesting with a very beautiful
Glad ya enjoyed it! Thanks!
Excellent
loads of love loaded in that :D
Very touching present from a friend Nathalie.
It tells the truth and also funny.
hint for other readers ''kruschev gave crimea and puttin took it back''.
now find the analogy with chocolates.
Thank you :)
thanks for this lovely post.
Always extremely happy to receive a package!
Me too!
At least no famous Kiwi sheep droppings got into your package from New Zealand!
The stuff she sent you is so adorable! She's really sweet. 😌
She's just a sweetie pie! Thanks!
Fabulous one!!!
Vladimir Putin >_<
The magnet is beautiful!!
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STOPNice gifts and sweet chocolates..Hmmmmmmmmmm
Great post @kotturinn, i love @matta-a.
That's cool, I love him too!
You have a nice friend in that person!
Happy to see you liked it, thank you!