Playground Terrorism

I love the bizzaro playground architecture of Slavdom (I smell coffee table book!), but it does explain why Slavs are afraid to have children--the comments are worth a skim:

We are tough because playgrounds are usually like war zones. Even the nicest neighborhood’s playground is like a kids’ ghetto. We stick in groups and protect our playground from the kids from other streets and playgrounds. Teenagers usually bully the younger kids, but in the end everybody sticks together if “outside kids” gang up against us. It was definitely fun growing up in that atmosphere. There was always something to do with your friends, tons of games, fights and other fun stuff kids should be doing. Prepares you for the real world pretty well. Not like in US where middle-class kids grow up to be bunch of pussies.

My favorite Slavic playground though is in Mykolayiv in southern Ukraine (home of Trotsky actually):



Credit: James