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[Neonivek]

Been trying so hard not to say this:

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in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

More seriously is that what the 'brilliant green' was?

I honestly don't believe that...

[Sheb]

Been trying so hard not to say this:

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in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

More seriously is that what the 'brilliant green' was?

The green is some kind of soviet era brand of disinfectant which stains a lot. But the acid was added to the green last time.

[CABL]

If you want pure independent criticism of the government, go ask CrocAndBearLover, he's very proficient at that.

I don't care about my country anymore, to be perfectly honest. Russia will never return to the glory days of the USSR. Say whatever you want about USSR and "500 billions of the victims" it mercilessly killed, but it actually had stable economy, powerful industry, and most importantly, people feared USSR, and as we all know, fear equals respect in the international politics. I would rather live in a totalitarian country which those qualities above, rather than live in a totalitarian country shithole with mediocre education system, poor healthcare, no industry aside of selling some petrol and raw materials, and hypocritical (regularly talking about how they're ready to protect Russian people from evil NATO forces, but they actually have expensive apartments in EU/NATO country) and insanely rich (one of our deputies has a personal airplane with a pilot) GosDuma members. So yeah, Putin and Co. should just give up on trying to make Russia great again via re-conquering "rightful territories", and start working on fighting corruption in our country and then do something with our ecomonics. It'll never happen, though, not when we have oligarchs in our parliament. End of rant, there'll be no more replies to Sergarr or any other Putinists. They live in a white and black world, just like the majority of the people across our blue globe...

[Neonivek]

it actually had stable economy

Wait? It did?

Not a "Deceptively weak economy" like say Argentina has had?

[CABL]

it actually had stable economy

Wait? It did?

Not a "Deceptively weak economy" like say Argentina has had?

Maybe USSR didn't have stable economy, but it produced other stuff outside of petrol and raw resources. The only economy which is worse than Russian is Somalian economy...

[Strife26]

There are stacks of countries with an objectively worse economy than Russia. Self-pity is all fine and good, but self-deception leads nowhere nice.

[CABL]

Y'know, the only reason I posted in this thread because one idealistic Russian kid mentioned me here. Politics is one huge echo-chamber/circlejerk, and that's what keeps me out of those kind of threads. So how about it'll be my first and only post rant in any political thread on Bay12?

And no, I've nothing against either Sergarr or idealism, I actually think he's a quite good fella.

[Neonivek]

Anyhow I think what you mean was that the USSR's economy was more diversified than Russia's

[CABL]

Anyhow I think what you mean was that the USSR's economy was more diversified than Russia's

You're correct, but I'm not interested in arguing anymore. Peace out!

[Strongpoint]

PTWatching

[Guardian G.I.]

Also, while this thread was inactive, Ukraine got visa-free travel with the EU. Which the absolute majority of Ukrainians can't do, because the abysmal economic situation means few people can afford to have the minimum sum of money required for entry.

[Sergarr]

Maybe USSR didn't have stable economy, but it produced other stuff outside of petrol and raw resources. The only economy which is worse than Russian is Somalian economy...

>_<

EDIT: Well, I would've clarified my displeasure further, but you've left the thread, so I can't do that.

[scriver]

By "abysmal economic situation" I do believe you mean the war.

[Sheb]

Also, while this thread was inactive, Ukraine got visa-free travel with the EU. Which the absolute majority of Ukrainians can't do, because the abysmal economic situation means few people can afford to have the minimum sum of money required for entry.

Germany: 45 euros per day.
France: 35 euros if you have proof of housing, 120 otherwise.

And the rest is like this. Either google translate is shitting me, or it's frankly not too bad.

[Baffler]

That's 1350 Euro/month, which equals almost 40,000 Hryvnia. The average monthly salary in Ukraine is ~4500 hryvnia, before taxes. So just the credit check takes a month's pay, let alone the expenses of staying somewhere and buying food.