Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "Rural Russians name a country they like (besides Russia)" video.

It's totally inexcusable that the conditions in rural Russia are like that a quarter of the way through the 21st century. These poor people have been lied to and robbed generation after generation and are still peasants.They would all be truly shocked to find out what rural living is like in any Western country. (They'd probably feel victimized androbbed and would want to steal anything that wasn't bolted down.)
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@bessarion1771 I served in the Canadian navy in the 1970s and we encountered Russian (and Polish) fishermen all of the time in St. John's Newfoundland. They were always friendly and they tried to reach out to us to communicate but every time, the "Party" guy would come along and shut it down. What was really striking ws how short they are. We were all healthy North American boys (I'm almost two meters tall) and they all came up to our chest. You could see that they all started in real poverty. Even today, an average Russian male will live ten years less than an average Canadian male.
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@bessarion1771 Yeah. They were friendly but the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact were EXTREMELY HOSTILE to us right up to our own Canadian shoreline (I wonder if Russians know that the proximity of NATO mirrors what they used to do to us?)
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@bessarion1771 We were healthy (healthier than our young are now) received proper nutrition, healthcare and vaccinations. Also, we don't have the same cultural tradition of heavy alcohol consumption and in some parts of our society, it is quite frowned upon. It's destroying the Russian people (and some of our Native community as well)..
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@everready800 Could they? Not during Soviet times.
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@wilhelmu There must have been one or you wouldn't be posting in the English language on computers invented by English speaking people on an Internet invented by English speaking people. You're right, though. If we ever try to colonize space, we will send the short ones because their bodies consume less resources.
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@Tobi-oi3uf I was just told to "get out of my bubble" and I was describing my bubble to that poster. Rural Eastern Europe is as far away from my bubble as a human can possibly get. That's way literally millions of Poles, Ukrainians have escaped into my bubble from their bubble. Poland is finally modernizing. Ukraine was trying to do so. The Russians? Hopeless.
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Russian running water ... load up Babushka with a couple of pails full and make her run.
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@bessarion1771 NATO expanded because all of Russia's neighbours have experienced what Russia is doing to Ukraine, right now. NATO is a voluntary alliance entered into by sovereign nations. They think like Russians and figure that it was ORDERED up to the Russian border by BIG BOSSES who were pushing buttons and pulling levers.
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@Tobi-oi3uf I live in a bubble called "Canada" which is bigger than Europe. Big bubble, eh? My mother grew up on a farm in the country that had telephone, hydroelectricity and natural gas connections in the 1920s The telephone was invented 100 kms way. AC power generation was invented 40 kms away and gas came out of the ground.
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I'm from Canada and we see things like this and think "What the f_uck?" It's the alcohol that's the key. Perhaps their government prefers that they are perpetually drunk but widespread Fetal Alcohol Syndrome produces a population that wants to murder, pillage and rape because they are physiologically incapable of self control.
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@wilhelmu I'm 193 cms. My son is 10 cms taller.. My father, born during WWI was 191 cms tall. The Dutch, by the way are the tallest people on Earth (I'm not Dutch). Maybe, the Eastern Europeans will be too after many decades of proper modern health care. The Japanese used to be "little" and now they're tall.
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@irenekasatik2013 No. Sorry. They are a beaten down and oppressed people who have no idea how badly off they are compared to the outside world. They have been crushed for many generations by a series of totalitarian thugs.
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@irenekasatik2013 It's a mixture of genes and environment. They have ancient 4000-5000 year old burials of my people with 196 cm male skeletons in them.
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@sroberts605 I had some friends that travelled there and there were checkpoints all over the country and you had to carry your "papers" everywhere. The movement of the population was controlled by a central authority. Soviets and their Warsaw Pact prisoners were not allowed to leave. Period. This is totally alien to us.
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@wilhelmu "oh, looks like I hit a sensitive chord" You're kidding, right? Anyway, I was an engineer in the navy but I was sure as shootin' not interested in living in a submarine! My father was a WWII military pilot but NOT in fighters at 191 cms.
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@pacmanc8103 No. I don't think of myself as a giant and for some strange reason, I've always had women that are MUCH shorter than me as lovers. Go figure.
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@Tobi-oi3uf Rural Russia was irrelevant to us, too even during the Cold War because we knew more-or-less what it was like. Now, it's stuck right in our faces in the developed and we're wondering how in the hell people can be so stupid.
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@Tobi-oi3uf ... a "bot"? No, are you? Yes I have a great deal to say about it. I'm 66 years old and I have lived my entire life threatened by these backwards cave dwellers who managed to make nuclear weapons. I served in our country's navy back in the 1970s (look at my previous posts) and watched these barbarians vacuum our great Grand Banks fishery clean of it's fish in huge fleets that were also spying on us on our own shores. What you fail to realize is how loathed these people are in many parts of the World including their immediate surrounding countries. What do you know about modern humanity? Nothing.
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@pacmanc8103 There are a lot of people around here my height. I go to Highland Games every once in a while and I can't see over people' heads, often.
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@WhyRequirePleaseAcquire Yup. That's what the Soviet Union was like. My country, Canada shipped large amounts of grain to the Soviet Union every year because their Collective Agriculture was an utter and complete failure.The non-Ruissan republics suffered the most just as the non-Russian Oblasts are carrying the manpower burden of the current war.
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