Youtube hearted comments of Vaska Tumir (@vaska1999).
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These days, self-censorship is par for the course throughout the West, including the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Opinions that differ from the official narrative (on whatever topic) are not merely shunned but can cost you your job, your income, your friends, and sometimes even your family. As for the media, censorship takes the form of 100% groupthink, so that NO alternate views and NO "inconvenient" facts are allowed to be aired or discussed.
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I don't know what the young ones do, but when I was dating back in the 1980s and 19090s, we split the bill. The guy may occasionally insist on treating the woman, and that was okay if not done too often. It would normally be linked to an occasion like her birthday, for instance. There were many differences among us women who supported and embraced feminism. Some objected to small gestures of courtesy such as opening the door for a woman, but I could never see anything but well-meant courtesy in that. Some feminists embraced ideas I think absurd and ludicrous (the moral superiority of women, for example), but that was usually in reaction to the psychological abuse of centuries of abuse by our cultures (witness the equally absurd and ludicrous idea of the moral inferiority, moral debility even of women, an idea that lived on in the culture for over 2000 years!). In any case, women in that part of the world achieved formal, legal equality and independence decades before their Western counterparts. The equality of men and women, in law and with sensible provisions for their biological differences, was actively supported by the early Soviets and encouraged by the state (universal access to education for girls and women, for example, was their achievement). As a result, Soviet and Russian women never had to fight our cultural battles or go through what we in the West call the second wave of feminism, the one between roughly 1960 and 2000, and often don't think themselves feminists while they naturally take for granted and continue to benefit from the social and legal legacy of precisely that , i.e. Soviet type of feminism.
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Well, things aren't exactly rosy right now. Oil revenues have declined by 45% compared with a year ago, and
"Russia’s current-account surplus shrank by a whopping 73% over the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year, according to central bank data released on Tuesday." RT
I'm certain Russia will pull through, but it seems the economy is in for a somewhat bumpy ride this year, even with the IMF and World Bank forecasts of 2+% growth. If oil prices pick up, as they're expected to do and as you point out here, things should improve quite a bit by the end of the year. In the meantime, Europe can't find a sufficient supply of gas (and oil) anywhere and at any price, even while purchasing Russian gas via third party sellers, and at a much higher price than it enjoyed just 16 months ago.
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