Unveiling the truth about Russian brides

For some reason, Russia still upholds the reputation of a mystery impossible to discover. Yet, in reality, there are tons of things that everyone does know about Russia. Ask an average person about one’s associations with Russia, and you’ll get a firework of random facts and notions: scattered pieces of recent news, communism, Russian and Soviet successes in sports, the first man in space, and, of course, vodka. Is there anything missing in this unpretentious list? Russian women brides, naturally!
Indeed, marrying Russian brides has become an enviable achievement for respectable Western gentlemen throughout the past few decades. An ever-increasing number of men have an even faster increasing number of stories about “friends of friends” meeting the love of their lives via an online dating site, with those women just so happening to be from Russia (or “collective Russia” which in many minds still stands for the entirety of the former USSR). Of course, some of them talk about how she divorced him as soon as she got her green card, but when you come to think about it, such trend is not specific to hot Russian brides in particular. To cut the slack, you can replace “Russian” with any other nationality, even with some well-to-do Western country, and look at the divorce stats only to see that Russian mail order brides form a much larger percentage of lasting marriages than their counterparts from most other regions.
Gossip is stereotypically considered to be a predominantly female feature. Yet, it seems like men like to gossip and boast about how they made that leap of faith to meet their perfect brides from across the ocean and how they are enormously proud of it. It must be that the “prize” is well worth of indulging into such “unmanly” pleasures as gossiping over it.
Let’s see just how true all those claims of beautiful Russian women charm and finesse really are. It’s true that following your heart across the ocean to Russia, of all places, is indeed a magnanimous deed that any man can be proud of to the point where he goes around boasting about it. Most of the time, there is more to it than just boasting. There must be more to all those beautiful Russian brides that makes them worthy of all the trouble of traveling across the globe and marrying them against all bureaucratic odds.