Russian Woman Arrested on Red Square for Eating Caviar

Being ‘chic’ in the new Russia is something the fascists want to discourage

B Kean
3 min readDec 1, 2023

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Courtesy of The Moscow Times

Her name is Gulina. She and a friend wheeled a 30-pound bucket of red caviar out of “GUM” — pronounced “goom” like “boom” — and set up a small picnic on Moscow’s blustery Red Square. In the background, the walls of the Kremlin can be seen. The closed mausoleum, the resting spot for “Uncle Lenin” — as he was called in Soviet textbooks — is off to Gulina’s left.

Snacking on a massive slice of bread upon which butter had been slathered and then topped off with what looked to be at least 200 grams (7 ounces) of the delightful and healthy salmon roe, Russia’s finest approached and arrested Gulina and her companion.

Naumann told the MSK1.RU news outlet that her plan had been to shoot a “retro style” video at a restaurant in Moscow, but when she discovered that the restaurant was closed, she decided to film the scene at Red Square instead (Russian Woman Arrested on Red Square).

Gulina is one of those millions of Russians who have no opinion about the war in Ukraine. She is living her life as she wants because, like the rest of us, she has only one life and has decided she wants to have fun while living it. Secondly, Gulina wants to enjoy the bits and pieces…

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B Kean
B Kean

Written by B Kean

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