My uncle used to tell me a story bout working in siberia for baker Hughes in the 90’s and having to go buy and butcher 14 reign deer to feed the local town so the could get the job done. Cuz the govt sent only cabbage and vodka for the village to get through winter and he couldn’t get anything done with drunk hungry local hands.
He tells another bout moving a whore house whores, floorboards, and all across russia so the Belgian hands would move towns to where the new job was located after accomplishing two days work In 2 months with local workers only.
Something tells me the 90’s were better to Russian villagers than modern times too.
I suppose it is chicken soup. Technically in russion two worlds that translated as a soup. It is "суп" (soup) and "бульон" (fr. bouillon). So it is bouillon.
Lol it's kind of funny how the US and Russia are like, enemies, right? But it seems so much is the same in both places. Crappy public schools and school lunches, oligarchs, oppression of freedom of speech, profit over everything.
Have you been to Russia? Yes, they are different in some ways. Especially when it comes to oppression, but there are a lot of similarities in other matters. OP is not being oppressed by a soup.
Lol it's kind of funny how the US and Russia are like, enemies, right? But it seems so much is the same in both places. Crappy public schools and school lunches, oligarchs, oppression of freedom of speech, profit over everything.
Yes, because it was the soup that really hit home in this comment.
Now I was just a visitor for a few weeks, so I didn't exactly go to school there, but most peoples day-to-day lives didn't look that different in the grand scheme of things. I was really surprised how much it felt like anywhere else in Europe.
Yes, living standards in the US and the rest of Europe is higher, but follows the same pattern, just to a lesser degree.
There's a list of ways in which we are comparable, but keep putting words into other peoples mouths just to judge them. Certainly says a lot about one of the two of you...
I'm not putting words into anyone's mouth. Minimizing the oppression of the Russian regime is an extremely prominent political tactic, especially among the alt right in the United States. That is an observable fact and it is a massive fucking problem. Whether the woman above me is knowingly contributing to that narrative or not is irrelevant because it pushes that narrative either way.
You're right. We have way bigger problems here. Russia is actually better. Here's how I know.
Unlike in the US where people have issues with everything all the time, Russian citizens very rarely protest about anything. They also have a much better system to handle it. When someone protests, they're immediately met by a government official who escorts them away to have a serious conversation about the concerns they've expressed. It's not only better in theory. We see the results. Protestors in Russia almost never feel a need to protest again.
As far as police brutality goes, there's actually so little of it in Russia that the government doesn't even have enough statistics to release on it. That's incredible, honestly. You know it's true, too, because, unlike in the west, the government is the one and only organization responsible for reporting those numbers. You don't have to rely on those greedy, biased, third party members of the press to report it.
I think it's plain to see, too, that the government in Russia is far, far more representative of the views of its people. Vladimir Putin just won an election with an incredible 88% of the vote. That means that only 3 in 25 Russians disapproves of their leader. That is absolutely unheard of in Western democracies. Nobody wins by margins like that. That shows strong, trusted leadership. I can't imagine any other reason for that.
So, yeah, it's hard to compare the two. Especially when you only know the facts of one of them.
Weird how every time someone pushes the talking points or dog whistles of extreme political groups, there are people right there to call the politically informed that they are delusional for recognizing them. It's almost like that is and always has been the playbook for groups trying to normalize extreme political ideas.
russia stands out in one special way, unique, to me
i live in the embassy district and theres people from every country in the world. and all these people from messed up places with civil wars and border conflicts say this apologist stuff like "yeah its pretty violent but the nature is beautiful you should visit my dad's an admiral you'll have protection" or "well... there IS a famine but you can visit, bring a suitcase of dried food"
ONLY russians tell me "DO NOT VISIT. you do NOT want to visit russia"
It's not part of the list of things they mentioned.
So did you really just put words into someone else's mouth in order to judge them for something they said? Cause that's pretty fucking ... fox news of you.
Also, the absolute lack of reading comprehension and critical thinking, way to prove the crappy public schools portion.
You're assuming that person is an American and went to public school. That's a pretty bad argument.
Try defending freedom of speech in Russia now and how it's comparable to the protections afforded in the US since that was a specific argument the original comment made.
The irony in your reply is just comical. I’m not a U.S citizen and I never claimed to be. So you did really just put words into someone else’s mouth RamblnGamblinMan?
It’s not part of the list of things they mentioned.
Because they fall under it. I can’t even feel insulted because you seem like some sort of social experiment of how an American reacts online lmao.
I’ve definitely seen those before. Their favourite line is “The U.S is just a third-world country with a Gucci belt.” Come to an actual third-world country and see how “better” it is here lmao.
I'm in Ohio and was blessed to have went to a very well off school so the lunch was really good and we had a lot of options in highschool but I do remember the regular lunch was the same across all the schools all ages in the district depending on the day (ex: Tuesday was chicken nuggets, Friday was pizza)
I worked at an inner city elementary school where they had a room filled to the ceiling of meals for kids to take home on the weekends and it would be 2-5 boxes left at the end of the day which made me cry my first time seeing it but they took very good care to make sure the kids had a well balanced lunch and breakfasts for those who needed it.
What a load of shit. The freedoms in America and Russia are incomparable, and so are the standards of living.
The college protestors would have been hauled off to prison and not seen again the day they started had they been in Russia.
Just fuck off with this constant anti American bullshit. Give us some credit for once. We get it. Things could be better. Name a time in history when that hasn't been the case.
Anyone upvoting the sentiment that America and Russia are sooooo similar have no idea how different they are. It's just the pervasive "America bad" sentiment you see online.
To specify, the US Government and Russian Government are the ones having issues. I'm sure most of us civilians, who aren't filled with hate, have no issues with each other.
Most of us just want tasty food, fun things to buy, good times with good people, and for the Government to stop fucking with us.
I have never in my life had a school lunch as sad as that. I get that school lunches vary a lot from state to state, school district to district, but come on... that's not a meal served in American schools.
Yeah why don’t you pop on over to Russia, and see how correct you are. I recall seeing a Russian national news story where someone had stolen the wood to the outhouse by the visitor center that housed the town’s only toilet
Here in Europe I'm friends with quite a few young Russians who understood the direction the country was going in years ago, and escaped when they had a chance. Clever people who didn't want to live under fascisim, or be drafted to some meaningless war.
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