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August 11, 2005
Toilets of the Revolution
From Toilets of the World: Leon Trotsky's.
One toilet the site's proprietor resolutely won't show:
However, the flat-out scariest toilet I've ever seen, a vision of Hell to give Dante the heebie-jeebies, was an underground public toilet in a park near Novodevichy Convent in Moscow. The "toilets" were knee-high stubs of culvert drainage pipes. The floor was covered in about an inch of liquified filth continuously replenished by a couple of "toilets" in reverse ooze mode. The atmosphere had an ammonia content about equal to that of Venus. Plus, this being Russia, one had to pay a fistful of Rubles for the privilege of visiting.
Posted by michele at August 11, 2005 6:10 PM
Comments
I have seen the toilet that you describe, but in a park near a church in Zelenogorsk (one of St.Petersburg's suburbs)!
Shocked and appalled, I waited six hours for a decent toilet that day.
/Camilla
Brilliant blog by the way :))
Posted by: Camilla at August 12, 2005 4:44 AM
Me again! I just had to post another comment, this time about Leon Trotsky: did you hear that the ice pick that was used to kill him has resurfaced after being lost for over 60 year's?! It is now in the hands of a mexican women who is looking for a buyer.
http://archive.sptimes.ru/archive/times/1087/features/a_16286.htm
/Camilla
Posted by: Camilla at August 12, 2005 4:55 AM
Reverse ooze mode? Wouldn't that clean the place?
Posted by: Calum at August 12, 2005 11:53 AM
I like what is defined as "Futuristic High-Tech Toilets"! Too Funny!
Posted by: sp at August 19, 2005 2:58 PM