Comments by "Dennis Valdis" (@dennisvaldis) on "Moscow’s Winter Wonderland: My First Walk Through the City" video.
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@NonWokeBloke You are responding fast. - Thank you.
Your choice is definitely NOT the worse, especially if you learn Russian language within a year or so.
I believe, one day you would be able to compare what's richer and what's more powerful (in its sounding, in general perception and overall thrill) - Jack London's original version of "Sundog Trail" OR .... its Russian-language translation, known as "Тропою Ложных Солнц".
Well, nowadays plenty of native British leave their Foggy Albion for other countries just because it's getting IMPOSSIBLE to live in British cities anymore . - The UK is finished, and it's very sad to watch.
The entire EU-idea (= a socialistic empire with all its heavy taxes, double-face lying, censorship, overwhelming aggressive islamism, etc) is finished as well.
Even Putin's Russia already looks like one of attractive destinations for those adequate people, who run away from "Western Democracy", that has already degraded into some sort of socialistic totalitarism.
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@NonWokeBloke I am now wrining to you from Finland, and .... (possessing/keeping/having my own Russian roots) I can tell, that those local Russians, who left Russia for Finland in 1990-s in pursuit for the so called "better material life", those already strongly regret of what they had done ....
Finland's economic future looks bad and extremely pessimistic as socialists and social-aid-recipients already dominate here, work-mentality of traditionally hard-working Finns is completely destroyed, Finland's own industry (e.g. machinery) is gone, exports permanently decreasing, taxes/tariffs/prices permanetly rising, etc, etc.
I personally know one nice Finnish family in Helsinki area (young Finns, cheerful Jussi & his wife) and in these hard years those two both intensively learn Russian (!!!), that is not (in my modest opinion) a mistake as "the times of new Gorbachiov" sooner of later come again and then ... Russia's economy will restart sharply.
Good luck to you there in Moscow. Have some patience about Russians and about learning their inner nature, and this new knowledge will definitely pay back to you.
Remember also St.Petersburg, which is not as hectic/vibrant as Moscow, i.e. life in St.Peterburg is cheaper, more peaceful and even more European-culture-orientated.
Just type in YouTube-search-words "OTAVA YO YABLOCHKO" and ... summer-time St.Petersburg (also nicknamed as "Venezia of the North") is all yours.
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Walking in Moscow (even in evenings & nights ) is very SAFE in comparison with walking in Paris, London, Manchester, NYC, L.A., Philadelphia, Stockholm, etc.
In case you decide to take a walking tour through day-time Paris keeping (not hiding) a traditional Jewish hat on top of your head, you'll certainly need two policemen (equipped with machine guns) to accompany you in your selfless endeavour. But ... there is some significant probability, that these heavily armed policemen would NOT take such a risk .... - This is NOT a piece of humour. - Ladies & Gentlemen, it's the capital city of French Republic. The present day. Year 2024.
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