Women in Russia are still expected to dress up like dolls and to do all the housework and child-rearing. Yet, for all that, Russia is a matriarchal society, with venerable babushkas often running the show at home. A lot of us are drunk. You know, anything for free. What you see here is really just an experiment.
Girls are having fun, that's all.
Transfixed by the spectacle, many begged to be chosen to be stripped and molested by the male dancers. Most cheered whenever a young woman was hauled up on the stage to be revealed to the world. You can always tell who wants to be part of it. But the experience of ending up naked at centre stage was not for everyone. One teenager seemed so shattered by her minute of infamy that she could be heard shrieking above the din long afterwards.