The rags-to-riches stories of Russian models, gymnasts, and other world-famous names illustrate a dangerous obsession with oligarchs, ascendance, and money.
came to power and transferred vast quantities of wealth into the hands of loyal Kremlin-linked oligarchs, beautiful women from Russia and former Soviet bloc countries have been branded with a strikingly similar fairy-tale narrative, a Cinderella story featuring capitalism as Prince Charming.
We are primed to devour these rags-to-riches stories because they seem ripped right from the pages of Russian literature.
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