Chapter 111: Visiting the Home of a Chinese Descendant
Back at the youth apartment, Brother Chao saw my pale face and hurriedly asked me what was wrong? I talked about what had just happened in the student dormitory.
Brother Chao asked Natasha to make a pot of hot tea, and then said with some worry: "It seems that you should be more careful when you go out in the future, I used to hear that there are skinheads in St. Petersburg, Moscow, but I didn't expect that skinheads also appeared in Novosibirsk. "I have just learned the ferocity of the skinheads, and now the parts of my body that were attacked by them are still faintly painful, I heard Xiao Liu say that these skinheads are xenophobic national radicals, but do you still not understand too much about these scumbags like thugs? So I asked Brother Chao, who was worthy of being born in liberal arts and knew everything about history and humanities.
Skinhead culture was originally a kind of culture, originated in London, England in the sixties of the twentieth century, began with the children of the working class, the original skinhead culture has nothing to do with politics, is a pursuit of music, fashion and lifestyle by young people, skinhead culture was all the rage in Britain in the sixties, and then became popular in Europe and the United States. By the seventies, skinhead culture was beginning to fade from fashion. It wasn't until the early eighties that skinhead culture began to slowly resurge, and skinhead culture gradually became more politically colored, and some skinhead members were recruited by far-right political groups, including the National Front and the British Movement. Violent incidents often occur at skinhead gatherings, especially in football hooliganism, so they attract the attention of the world's media.
Russia's skinheads are different from the skinhead culture in the West, with Russian youth as its main members, advocating ultra-nationalism, Nazism, and extreme xenophobia, specializing in violent attacks on radical organizations of color. At the end of the Soviet Union, ********** advocated "new thinking", various currents of thought were rampant in Soviet society, and many banned racial and ultra-nationalist associations were revived. As a result, Nazi ideology was admired by some young people, and bald heads became a fashion, and some Russian teenagers even regarded it as a glorious fashion to become members of the "skinheads". After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a large number of foreign businessmen, laborers, and students entered Russia, either to work or to study. Many of them have a higher standard of living than ordinary Russians, which greatly stimulates their self-esteem as a "great power", so that some people mistakenly blame their failure to improve their standard of living on foreigners who have robbed them of their jobs, and develop irrational hatred and hatred towards foreigners. Coupled with the lack of attention from the Russian government, the connivance of the Russian police, and the lag of Russian laws, even the skinheads have been recognized by some people and political factions. Therefore, skinheads are very rampant in Russia, and there have been many incidents of foreigners being injured or even killed by skinheads in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
After listening to Brother Chao's explanation, I thought, no wonder the Russian skinheads are so rampant today, if it weren't for Vidali and them coming over today, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to get out of the student dormitory today. Hopefully, as Vidali said, these skinhead hooligans will be scared by the mafia, and they will not dare to go to the student dormitory to harass them in the future.
After resting for a while, Brother Chao asked me, "Dapeng, does your stomach still hurt?" If not, let's rest in the dormitory today, and we'll visit Yuri another day. I replied, "Brother Chao, I'm much better now, let's go to Yuri's house in a while." These hooligans were so ruthless that if they kicked them like this twice in the summer, they would have to break their ribs. Later, watching Vidali teach these hooligans a hard lesson, I really relieved my hatred. ”
Seeing that the time was about the same, Brother Chao and I took a box of green tea, a bottle of Chinese baijiu and a ginseng and prepared to go out. Before going out, Tanya repeatedly told us to be careful and not to take the subway and bus. It seems that Tanya was frightened by the skinheads she met today. I pointed to the hat I was wearing on my head, then wrapped the scarf around half of my face, leaving only my eyes, and asked Danya with a smile: "If you don't look carefully now, can you still see that I am Chinese?" Danya pulled the scarf for me and said, "Honey, if you go out like this in the future, Vanya will also prepare a scarf." Brother Chao smiled and said, "It's a pity that Natasha can't knit a scarf." Natasha immediately took over and said, "Tanya, you will teach me to weave a scarf today, and I will also weave a scarf for Vanya." ”
After going out, he waved and stopped a private car on the side of the road. Yuri's home is easy to find, in a Khrushchev building in the center of the city, a three-room house, one room as a living room, and the other two rooms as bedrooms, where Yuri and his wife and Andrei and Marina, who have just gotten married. Because it was a Sunday, Yuri's family was there, and because we were coming, Yuri specially brought his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anton, with us. Old man Anton was very happy to see us, grabbed my hand and said to us in Chinese: "Xiaopeng, I am very happy to see you, as if I have seen a long-lost relative. When I gave the ginseng to the old man Anton, the old man was very excited, put on reading glasses, looked at it carefully for a long time, and kept saying: "This is the treasure of my hometown, I remember when I was a child, my grandmother used to cook ginseng soup for my grandfather to drink." Now seeing ginseng, I feel like I'm back to my childhood, back to my hometown of Harbin. ”
Because he has a quarter of Chinese ancestry, and because his surname is still a Chinese surname, Yuri's house has a lot of Chinese characteristics, and there is a yellowed painting on the wall of the living room, and the cloisonné handicraft plate I gave them is placed in an obvious position on the wine cabinet, and there is a peony vase next to it, and there are three thread-bound books in traditional Chinese characters on the bookshelf. Yuri told us that the New Year paintings and books were left by his grandfather, and that the vase was bought at the craft shop.
Yuri's wife made a pot of green tea that we had brought with us, and we chatted over tea. Old man Anton and Yuri said that China's green tea is delicious, Yuri said: "This is the real tea, the tea we buy in the mall is the worst tea, it can be said that it is not called real tea, I know that the best tea in China is Longjing Biluochun and Da Hong Pao." It seems that Yuri is very interested in Chinese culture, and Brother Chao praised Yuri: "Mr. Yuri, you are very good at studying Chinese culture, and you are welcome to visit China when you have the opportunity in the future." Yuri said: "I have Chinese ancestry, so I am very interested in all things Chinese, and I will definitely go to China in the future." ”
Brother Chao and Yuri talked about the Shandong Agricultural Cooperative delegation, Yuri said: "I have already reported to the leaders of our Department of Agriculture, the leaders of the Department of Agriculture attach great importance to it, and the leaders of the Department of Agriculture will come forward to meet with them." If an invitation letter is issued by the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Agriculture may issue an invitation letter. Brother Chao said: "If the Department of Agriculture issues an invitation letter, I will ask for the list of agricultural experts and leaders of agricultural cooperatives in the delegation on Monday." Chao Ge and Yuri talked about some details of future agricultural cooperation, all in all, Novosibirsk has too much barren land and farms, and it is urgent to restore agricultural production, so the Novosibirsk government attaches great importance to the introduction of agricultural technology from China and can give a preferential policy.
Before we knew it, it was time for dinner, and we made a half-Chinese, half-Siberian-style dumpling together. During the meal, the old man Anton excitedly drank a few glasses of Chinese liquor that we brought over, and later the old man wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said: "Although I have lived in Russia for more than fifty years, I have never forgotten that I am a Chinese, and I often dream of my hometown and my childhood friends." ”