“After many years of fulfilling your dreams, the sculptures themselves now need help – many of them are worn out and have lost their original appearance,” said the office in charge of transport in the Russian capital on the Telegram social platform.
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The tradition of touching the statues in the metro station, which is located near Red Square, dates back to Soviet times. According to The Moscow Times, until 1938, when students of the Moscow State Technical University of Nikolai Bauman turned to one of the statues with a request for happiness at the exams.
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Specifically, they believed that a bronze border guard would help them. Generations of Moscow residents and tourists have begun to imitate them, and the snout of the alleged bearer of happiness is now significantly brighter than the rest of the sculptural group.
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However, the aura of the bearers of happiness surrounds other sculptures made in the style of socialist realism. While one is supposed to help love and marriage, another is said to bring financial success and the other is to arrange a good day.
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However, the Moscow Transport Authority is now asking passengers to help preserve the statues and their supernatural abilities for future generations. You can turn to them with requests for happiness even without touching it. “We promise that the statues will be grateful and all your wishes will be fulfilled,” the office claims.
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