The year 2017 marked the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

After the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union was born in 1922, and the Soviet Union lasted from then until 1991. Twenty-six years later, I visited this land for the first time.

In the photo they are boys and girls playing at a skateboard park in Moscow.

Most were roughly in their teens and twenties.

They listen to English songs, wear clothing written in English, and play on skateboards and kickboards born in English-speaking countries.

Their appearance is almost the same as that of boys and girls in Western countries.

What I found during my stay in Moscow was that there was a difference in the way the generation roughly older than 26 and younger than 26, born after the collapse of the Soviet Union, treated me as a foreigner.

The biggest difference in particular is the air of willingness or unwillingness to talk to me, a foreigner.

The land has a history of times gone by and the country has changed.

The wave of modernization and the Internet infrastructure provide a glimpse of the progress being made even among nations with different ideologies.

That Moscow, Russia, 100 years ago was in a frenzy over the revolution, and today, 100 years later, it is in a frenzy over the World Cup soccer tournament. These people in the photo are “the first Russians who grew up in a global culture.

The differences and boundaries between nations are blurring as time goes by,

They smiled and allowed me, a foreigner, to take their picture.