Some restaurants greet their customers with a guard who brusquely asks what they want, as if they came to buy stamps, not to have dinner. Of course, the guards know that their job is to ensure that everyone is safe and comfortable, but the Gulag-type notion of what a guard does is too embedded to be removed.
有些餐馆一进门便有警卫粗鲁地询问顾客要什么，仿佛他们是来买图章，而不是来进餐的。当然，这些警卫的工作是保证所有顾客的安全及舒适，但古拉格集中营的警卫形象却很难在人们心中摸去。他们真正的任务是"反对"――这一次，他们反对的是他们的顾客。