But Russian memory is also subject to Western-style postmodernist mockery. A recent fashion in St. Petersburg are restaurants with names such as "Lenin's Mating Call," "USSR," and "Russian Kitsch," which has frescos showing collective farmers socializing with American Indians while Leonid Brezhnev, resembling Frank Sinatra, gives a speech to a stone-age tribe.
这里，回忆变成了闹剧。但俄国的记忆也逃不过西方后现代主义的嘲讽。圣彼得堡最近的时尚是饭馆起名叫"列宁在房事中的呻吟，""苏联"和"俄国破烂，"墙上的壁画表现集体农场的劳动者与美洲印第安人联谊，而布里兹涅夫则模仿法兰克·辛那屈，向石器时代的原始部落演讲。