ANECDOTALLY SPEAKING: the Russian street and Israel-Gaza war
The following text is a translation of the post published by the resident of St Petersburg, a theatre critic and a journalist, Elena Volgust, who decided to walk the streets of St Petersburg with an Israeli flag.
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“I followed the route Moscow boulevard -Kuznetzovskaya-Brother’s Strugatskiye square-bus-trolleybus-Zagorodny boulevard-Vladimirskiy boulevard- corner of Nevsky and Liteiny-trolleybus-bus. All the way -I travelled silently. I did not talk to anyone and did not ask anything. All that time I simply held a flag in my hand, vertically.
Reactions:
A boy on a bicycle shouted : ”Jews!”
A woman in a mask: “An activist..ugh”
Two aged men: “Well done”
Four people smiled at me on the street, size people smiled-on public transport
Many looked intently but did not express any view
One significant conversation happened, with a woman who initiated it, at a bus stop near Vitebskaya station. She approved of the flag, said that watches news day and night and all sorts of clever commentary, worries about Israelis, wishes them victory. Another woman,...