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@KR72534 Yeah, you are about 500 years behind the times. While you are confused because you cannot translate across national economies, Russians live better than you do. After the collapse of the USSR, the average Russian earned about $400 per month. But it only cost $400 per month to live very well. I made $1000 per month from an American training and consulting company. And that was living rich. The attempts to compare different economies is a failure. Vastly more Russians own their own house or apartment (like condo ownership) than Americans. Russia grows vast amounts of food and Russians have every kind of food in abundance. Put down your books from the 1400s and open your eyes.
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@mr.priman Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus are all the same country, founded 1100 years ago in Kiev
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Funny that they were not. Even in the Soviet Union, Ukraine was much more backward than the Russian Oblast.
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@jamesortiz5388 "Germans said Russian soldiers were covered with bugs very dirty and uniforms that were filthy." Well in the middle of a war living in trenches, yes, Germans and Russians and the US and the UK and the French and the Italians were all covered with bugs, very dirty, with filthy uniforms. It's called WAR. You might want to learn some history.
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Except for when they are not, which is 100% of the time. Russia is exporting oil, gold, diamonds, natural gas, and every other natural resource -- now at very elevated prices.
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A corrupt US Sstate Department official Victoria Nuland walks into a Starbucks. A journalist asks: Does Russia want to attack NATO? Victoria Nuland: "They will when I get through with creating a war."
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Russia has absolutely no interest in how Europe does anything. If Europe would just stop trying to attack and over-throw Russia, Russia would leave them alone.
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@tjones44236 A dacha is -- by definition -- a SECOND HOME in the countryside. SO if your former mother-in-law has a dachaa she is RICH ENOUGH to have TWO homes. Now the dacha is often family owned. It is usually not personally owned. So Russians typically own their own house or apartment (condominium style) free and clear with no mortgage, because the state-owned property was distributed to the people when communism collapsed. And their FAMILY also owns a country home, a dacha. A dacha can be anything from a palace to a camping shack. But a dacha is a SECOND home. My friend's family dacha was small so when we all went out there for a long weekend we had to sleep in cars or sleeping bags. But we all lined up for the toilet, the shower, the indoor plumbing. REMEMBER: Indoor plumbing from a WELL with a small electric motor is CHEAPER than connecting to the city water. In the USA, if you have a well, you drill a hole into the ground, drop down an electric pump into the hole, and get FREE WATER forever. ANd the pipes are a short distance.
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@tjones44236 "Russia had a frontier slave culture " which ended in February 1917 and more in October-November 1917. Overthrowing that culture was the purpose of the Russian Revolution. The broad-based coalition of the revolution was then thrown into the civil war between the Whites and Reds (Bolsheviks). The very purpose (allegedly) of the revolution was to bring equal rights to all the people in the Russian Empire.
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SInce it is not true, it tells you a lot about the people who lie about such things
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@KR72534 Again, since everyone owns their own house or apartment -- which were distributed to all citizens when the communist system collapsed -- your statistics are meaningless, for that and many other reasons. Again, my comments seem to be disappearing. But when I earned $1000 a month from an American company, I was rich. Instead of sharing a family house, I lived on my own in a very nice large apartment on $1000 per month and had plenty of money to spend. You cannot compare different economies.
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@votebrian66 The concepts? No, the concepts are the same. THE DETAILS? Every variable of the model is radically different in the USA versus Russia. That's the point. You cannot compare the economy of Russia to the USA. Their situations are completely different.
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@KolasName That is true, but that means that the rest of the world is moving away from the USA economically because they are tired of suffering from the USA's bad economic policies. So the USA is shooting ourselves in the foot. It's our way. That's what we do. Meanwhile, Russia has more natural resources than the rest of the world combined. Russia stretches across 11 time zones. So there is plenty for Russia to export
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@swampwiz WOW. Well said.
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@christopherpaul1012 Why would anyone with a brain put concrete floors to cow sheds? Sounds pretty dumb.
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@KR72534 Russia's technology has been ahead of the West for 1100 years. 100% of all Russian apartments and houses have indoor plumbing. Russians had indoor plumbing before the Pilgrims from the Mayflower had built their first building and were still living on the ground.
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I think you are confused. The Russian soldiers may have been amazed that in Germany any two bricks were still standing one on top of the other after the Russians smashed the German war machine.
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Or better yet, you could go look for yourself. Which I have done. Everyone has indoor plumbing. Everyone owns their own apartment (condominium) or house -- unless they subsequently sold it voluntarily. No one has a mortgage because the communist state distributed real estate to its citizens like dividends from the dismantling of communism. People grow their own food in addition to buying extra things. They have gardens. THey have communal gardens. They have dachas (2nd homes in the countryside) where they have gardens. Romanians and Russians live richer than Americans. Go look and see for yourself.
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@ТатьянаБорисенко-р7н I would rather see what I actually saw and not listen to anyone's propaganda There are no residences in Russia lacking indoor plumbing, unless it is something like a hunting cabin in the woods or campaign shack. I visited a family lakeside shack in rural Latvia. In door plumbing. Toilets. We had a large camping crowd so we had to line up, and I had to sleep in the back of a station wagon. But still indoor plumbing. Toilets. Shower.
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"The size of the Russian economy is about the size of Italian one" It is not. You cannot translate across economies like that. Russia is richer than Saudi Arabia
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@fretworka3596 But Republicans will be the worst thing that would happen to Russia, as Trump did to Russia when President
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@mr.priman Really? Can you think of a single example? No?
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@mr.priman There has never been a muscovy empire. The Russian Empire was founded in Kiev 1100 years ago. The communists (who are now in AMerica in the Democrat Party) staged a revolution and then turned on their allies. There was a civil war between the Reds and the Whies. So for 70 years there was a country the Soviet Union formed out of many countries by force at the point of a gun. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and so countries returned to their prior status. There has never been a separate country Ukraine. There has never been a separate country Muscovy. Moscow was and is simply a very large city . Muscovy was led by only a Duke, not a Baron or Lord. It was just a big city within Rus.
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@mr.priman "Rus was found in Kyiv, not in moscow." That's what I said and have been saying. Rus = Ukraine. Ukraine = Rus. Rus was founded in Kiev in the 800's and culminating in the installation of Vladimir in 917 AD.
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@mr.priman "When Rus was founded, moscow simply hasn't existed." False. WHen Rus was founded Moscow was a minor city just like all the other cities of Rus. The Tsar of Rus kept MOVING the capitol to break away from the bureuacracy and nobility. So Rus's capital kept moving and eventually moved to Moscow and then to St. Petersburg, then back to Moscow. Moscow existed, but minor towns and cities grew tremendously all over Rus for 1100 years.
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@mr.priman "1) 1100 there was state called Kyivan Rus (and no, rus and ruZZia aren't the same state)" Actually it was called RUS. Historians invented the description KYIVAN RUS to talk about the period of time when Rus was centered in Kyiv as different from the periods of time when Rus moved from one city to another to the North, eventually to Moscow.
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@mr.priman "2) and peter the german, after winning the war with Sweden, started to call muscovy - russian empire An empire exists when one leader rules more than one country, like an admiral commands many ships not one. The Russian Empire existed for hundreds of years before it was formally called the Russian Empire. Muscovy had nothing to do with it. Muscovy is just one of many cities in Rus
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@mr.priman The Russian Empire was not wishful thinking because Rus in act conquered vast lands beyond original Rus and ruled many former countries and kingdoms. The Russian Empire dates back to 1271 at the latest. Again, an "empire" is not what you call something. It is a country under a rule who expands across many countries.
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@mr.priman Ukraine has always been Rus. If anything, Ukraine is the grandfather, the senior, superior member of the Russian Empire until the rest of Rus grew much more powerful. I wouldn't say that Ukraine grew weaker. The rest of Rus just grew much faster and bigger. Ukraine has never been an independent country. That is not because it is inferior to the rest of Rus, but in fact the source of Rus.
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@mr.priman "moscow duchy was found in 1282 as Vassal State of Golden Horde. Sorry bro" Sorry, no. Moscow is and always has been a city of Rus. Yes, all of Rus was viciously attacked and invaded century after century by barbarians from the East like the Golden Horde. It already existed independent from the Eastern barbarians. All parts of RUs suffered from barbarian invasions. Moscow was no different from any other part of Rus. Moscow's founding has nothing to do with the Golden Horde. Moscow's survival was threatened by the Golden Horde, for sure.
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@mr.priman Um. They were. The USA fought a war against UK over that question. Did you hear about it? The American Revolution. The United States declared independence on July 2, 1776, published openly on July 4, 1776. The English crown had some strong feelings about that. We fought a big war. That's how the USA and the UK became different countries. The UK lost so much money in WW1 and WW2 that they had to abandon Canada and enter into a treaty that Canada and the UK are associated, but diferent countries. DID YOU KNOW that the Queen (now the King) of the UK IS THE QUEEN OR KING OF CANADA? Canada completely ignores the King or Queen. But technically Canada is under the King or Queen of England. But nobody in Canada cares or listens to them.
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@mr.priman No, I heard of Ukraine, Russia, and NATO agreeing to allow Ukraine to be independent IF AND ONLY IF NATO DID NOT EXPAND. Then NATO expanded and Ukraine militarized against Russia. So agreement broken and void. But did you know that the Declration of Independence of the United States required A WAR between the UK and USA to implement it?
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@igorlobanov5031 1100 years has not passed for the Russians. This is the brain damage of the shallow, foolish Russia-haters. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOU THINK. If the question is what THEY will do, then what THEY think counts (in terms of what they are going to do). Your opinion does not matter (in terms of what they are going to do). Yet you continue with this YOU-centered analysis as most Russia haters do. The Russian people are deeply tied to their 1100 years of history. They see that they have been victims for 1100 years of invasions from Europe and from the barbarians of the Eastern steppe. They trust no one. They hate you with a passion. They love honor. They love Mother Russia. If they could stab you in the heart but they would also die, they will stab you and me in the heart. They would be happy to die if they can kill us in the West at the same time. That Russian is more real than ever. That Russian has never ended.
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Frustrating or not, Beijing Biden has caused the price of oil to soar. Biden has made Russia rich off the soaring price of oil and gold. Remember: Russia is a massive exporter of gold mined in Russia.
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So when communist Democrats in the USA claim that spending on wars will stimulate the civilian economy of the USA you think that the Democrats' economic policy is smoke and mirrors?
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@ulrich2s Yes, being an American is very painful these days like that
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Except the opposite is true. The USA, NATO, and Ukraine have burned through all the West's armor and artillery. The defense industry says it will take 12-14 years for the USA's manufacturing sector to replace our minimum needs for armor and artillery. Russia is out-producing the rest of the world combined on military equipment.
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Russia just wants Europe to leave Russia alone.
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Russia wants Europe to go f' itself and couldn't care less what Europe does as long as Europe does it "OVER THERE!" and stops sticking Europe's nose in Russia's business.
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Did no one tell you that the Soviet Union no longer exists?
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You are a liar Roberto. Plumbing is pretty damn simple. The Soviet Union put the first satellite in orbit. Manufacturing pipes is child's play. The USSR created full employment by giving everyone public works project jobs. There is no one in Romania or Russia who does not have indoor plumbing, unless they live in a hunting cabin in the middle of the woods like the UNABOMBER
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@tjones44236 Sorry, not buying it. If I choose to go live in the woods like the UNABOMBER in the USA, Ted Kozenski or I choose to live alone in the wilderness, that's different. But the Soviet Union faked "full employment" by putting people to work doing public works projects. Nothing is more simple and basic to put people to work and claim everyone is employed than running some pipes to and from apartment high-rise complexes and houses. If there is any house or apartment that does not have indoor plumbing and toilet after 70 years of communism, like FDR's Public Works programs in the USA, it would be a museum and people would come and stare at it in wonder.
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@tjones44236 "She's pushing 90 and hers is the only old school dacha remaining on the street, to my knowledge." All houses and apartments were owned by the State under communism. When communism ended, the successor countries distributed all the houses and apartments to the people. So your family's relative simply needs to stop being a hermet living in the woods and come to the city.
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@tjones44236 I have a 94-year old Aunt who refuses to move from her little house in the middle of nowhere. It would be so much easier for all of us if she would move to be near any of the rest of the family. But she will not go down the street. So if your family's relative refuses to leave a hunting woods cabin, that's her choice
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@tjones44236 "whereas the US frontier was settled by individualist yeoman farmers" Individual homes or frontier cabins creates the opportunity for some houses to have indoor plumbing while others do not. Soviet communism required UNIFORMITY and mass production, where everything is done together. The Soviet revolution was about collectivization. The US frontier was fiercely independent and individualized. So for 70 years of Soviet collectivization, if anyone has indoor plumbing EVERYONE HAS INDOOR PLUMBING. If the bureaucrats found a non-conforming house that didn't match the others, they would swing into action and correct that.
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@tjones44236 Especially when the economic model of the Soviet Union was to create MAKE-WORK jobs to PRETEND that their economy was working by giving everyone a job. The entire economic plan, like FDRs policy of climbing out of the Great Depression, was to put EVERYONE to work and give them jobs primarily public works jobs. So the entire Soviet economic model would be to put EVERYONE to work doing things like making pipes, burying the pipes, connecting the pipes to houses and apartment complexes. Whereas the USA is perhaps "chaotic" (individual), Soviet collectivization could not tolerate some people having indoor plumbing and others being different. Conformity was the goal and non-conformity was to be fixed.
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Russia did not. Russia is a superpower. The USA is not.... because US leaders are dumb and disloyal. The USA COULD BE the world's strongest superpower.... if we fired all of our leaders and put them on trial for betraying the country. Then the next group of leaders would pay attention to their duties for our country.
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@RondoHunter3.14 No Russian soldier ever stole any toilet or washing machine from any enemy territory. First, Russians can out-produce the rest of the world in appliances especially simple appliances like washing machines. Second, no Russian wants someone else's dirty toilet.
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Sanctions have never worked in the entire history of sanctions. Why would they work now? What's different?
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Actually, no. The soaring price of oil is making Russia rich, both the civilian and military economy. Congratulation US boneheads? My country needs better leaders
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