‘Supermodels with grandmother values’: The murky world of Eastern European matchmaking
Eastern Europe’s ‘mail-order bride’ market is big business (Picture: Metro.co.uk)Feminine gold-diggers with traditional family values – these are just some of the stereotypes about women in Eastern Europe, pushed by Hollywood films like Borat.Fetishisation of women from the former Communist Bloc predates the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but it’s recently been regurgitated by the ‘king of toxic masculinity’, Andrew Tate, and his fanbase.They