What does it take to fix Russia’s infamous potholes? Apparently, just a handful of foreign fans.
To locals, the giant pothole in Nizhny Novgorod must have been a daily nuisance. But for two male fans from Croatia the giant hole was a great photo opportunity.
Not to be outdone, four Argentinian fans then staged their own photo-op in the pothole.
Probably fearing a deluge of foreigners, only a day later the pothole had been freshly paved.
“Possibly, to solve Russia’s road problem, we only need to put a foreigner in every pothole,” the Lentach Telegram channel proposed. Hear that?
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