What's kooky about Russia is it's not a shithole but it's not functional either
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Date: April 30th, 2025 1:06 AM Author: Mustard mad cow disease
Stalin killed less than 1-5% of the population. Hitler killed 5-10%. We could argue about these figures all day but there's no way they killed all the decent people.
To wit Boris Yeltsin's grandfather was a Kulak and he was able to get away with lying about it. Realistically it was impossible to kill everyone who didn't like the State. And then you have subsequent generations who grow up and have their own opinions.
I think it's something much more endemic than it was Soviet action. Russia sucked in the 18th and 19 centuries too. I like the pumos theory that the aristocrats were living in the first world but everyone else was a caveman. Makes more sense than Stalin killed everybody with a brain. He killed lots of people but many more weren't killed.
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Date: April 30th, 2025 1:14 AM Author: Passionate Tan Factory Reset Button Water Buffalo
almost the entire ruling and management class under the Tsar was chased away and the psycho peasants were put in charge
they spent decades chasing down intellectual, scientists, basically anyone smart enough to see that the Soviet experiment was going to be a monumental disaster. millions of others were sent to exile or the gulag and they were broken
then you have the mass murders of military officers and anyone competent who could threaten leaders above them
so the system selected for amoral brutal people (some smart, many dumb) who would do anything the system required, no matter how sick and twisted. so you end up with spineless mobs of people, just like the ones you see in Ukraine who mindlessly follow orders, even when they know they are walking into certain death
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Date: May 1st, 2025 4:16 PM Author: self-centered purple school cafeteria
1) The assumption isn't entirely accurate. Moldova, for example, is poorer. But many are wealthier too.
2) Instability and corruption are toxic for growth.
3) 2 resulted in massive brain drain. If you look at migration, Ukraine lost a ton of people since the fall of the USSR. When you meet "Russians" in the US, a huge number of them are actually from Ukraine. Far more than from Russia despite Russia always having had a much larger population.
4) Their "pro-western" government resulted in a stupid situation where they broke off their relations with Russia which is historically by far their largest trading partner without EU/US trade compensating. So they're effectively living off of Western crumbs. The same problem exists in places like Armenia and Moldova. This was also a reason why Georgia got sick of the bs and elected a pro-Russian government.
Regardless, we're talking about the damage the Commies did, which includes deliberately balkanizing the Russian Empire which planted the seeds for the numerous conflicts we see today.
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Date: May 1st, 2025 4:29 PM Author: self-centered purple school cafeteria
Everyone was poor at the end of the USSR. Part of that was because Communism never worked, part of that was because as shitty as it was there was a huge recession at the end of the Commie era. Then that system largely crashed and capitalism didn't really take root either and was largely limited to importing Western goods which they had no ability to pay for. Some countries ultimately made money by becoming outsourcing centers for Western companies. Poland is like that. For anyone that thinks I'm being unfair - name a Polish company you buy stuff from.
Russia had a lost decade in the 90s during the Yeltsin era. Only during the Putin era did they start developing their own companies and technology.
Ukraine basically had constant strife. Their own companies couldn't be started because anyone good left. Everyone thinks the Stalker series is a cool video game series, right? Not Ukrainian anymore. The company left Ukraine a while ago.
Long term Ukraine is also fucked because the war basically killed any green shoots they had. Another huge wave left, then another huge wave died or was gravely injured. And there is no end in sight.
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Date: April 30th, 2025 11:59 AM Author: scarlet coldplay fan
Per Russian State Statistics Service Rosstat, 22.6% of Russians do not have indoor plumbing. In rural Russia, almost 2/3rd's have no access to indoor toilets, 48.1% use outhouses and 18.4% do not have a sewage system.
https://x.com/rorycflynn808/status/1747328985577759117?lang=en
And this is according to Russia's own official statistics. The real numbers are almost certainly worse.
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Date: April 30th, 2025 1:09 AM Author: Tripping sound barrier
It only has good infra in the big cities, like Moscow adn St P is nice but I heard outside those areas it goes to shit but i dunno i ahvent been other than one day in Siberia
and how is this diff from the US u dumb faggot, the US has shit infra
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Date: April 30th, 2025 11:58 AM Author: Frisky Vermilion Affirmative Action
i know several people that have spent a substantial amount of time there and they all say it's 180 and have no biased reason to lie to me.
the west forcememes russia and china as being shitholes but they seem to be doing much better than us.
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Date: April 30th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: rebellious bull headed casino
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Per Russian State Statistics Service Rosstat, 22.6% of Russians do not have indoor plumbing. In rural Russia, almost 2/3rd's have no access to indoor toilets, 48.1% use outhouses and 18.4% do not have a sewage system.
https://x.com/rorycflynn808/status/1747328985577759117?lang=en
And this is according to Russia's own official statistics. The real numbers are almost certainly worse.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718298&forum_id=2#48893479)
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Date: May 7th, 2025 2:35 PM Author: self-centered purple school cafeteria
This whole thing is silly.
1. Everyone in any urban area in Russia has normal toilets. Russia also has deep rural and minority areas that Westerners would be shocked is even Russia.
2. The vid of Putin saying people are coming back because they can't stand unisex toilets is hilarious since the place with the most unisex toilets I've ever seen is easily Moscow. Tons of expensive restaurants and clubs have single gender toilets.
Anyway, neither of these things is an actual problem irl.
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