Happiness (as the name translates) is when you find this oasis of neatness in the middle of a scruffy Siberian city. Soviet-style redneck patrons who inhabit this dollhouse of a place add a comic edge to the picture. The globalist menu includes several kinds of tasty shashlyk and a mean tom yum.
Shchastye
Eastern Siberia
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