I will come up with a decent CTRL idea later.

First – something for your Essay Section.

Something about my old neighborhood – the capital of the most prosperous ethnic group on this planet – Russian Americans (I don't know how it's true, but – according to statistics, anyway).

Dostoyevsky once said: “One day, the Man will come to the God, carrying only one Book. This book is Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.”

All those people who left Russia came to America carrying in mind another book – The Golden Calf by Ilf & Petrov.

All that Slavic-Jewish emigration now living near Brighton Beach is made up of people who love the man known as

Ostap-Suleyman-Berta-Maria-Bender-Bei.

If you want to understand them – read that novel.

They left Russia because they wanted a different ending.

The main events of the Golden Calf Heist are taking place in the City by the (Black) Sea – Chernomorsk.

Probably, the main reason why we come to Brighton Beach – its climate reminds us of our Black-Seaevsk.

Native From Brighton

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