yestereve, as is common, a common crowd flowed casually across Red Square, most likely unawares (but certainly now reflective) of how it had been "sacred space" not so long ago. Lenin's Tomb was (un)holy ground. respect. silence. whispers. "awe".
Moscow's iconic Saint Basil's had been such for centuries before the Bolshevik Revolution.
and now? now that St Basil's is an icon and reopened tourist site, and hardly seen with awe...
and Lenin and his tomb are basically ignored...
where now is sacred there on Red Square? seen with "awe"?
the jewelry shops of GUM?
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