Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Fareed to Tucker Carlson: You need to get out more" video.

  1. ​ @ellebelle8515  the Auchan supermarket which was visited by Tucker can be found in most of Russian regions, with exception of Fat East, majority of Russian population lives in European part of Russia and logistics to Far East are coming not from Europe, but from Asia, and the Far East has the most developed small and medium businesses with no giant companies and corporations, at least in terms of supermarkets. Tucker Carlson wanted to show that Russians are living the same lifestyle as people in the West by visiting groccery shop. Russian prices are lower than American prices in dollars, but yes, average salaries in Russia are smaller. The problem is that Russian pro-Western liberals and Western media is simply comparing countries in salaries in dollars, not considering the difference in prices. Russia is much more poor than USA, but it is false to measure difference in life standarts by salaries in dollars, because prices in Russia are also lower, and they were 1.5-2 times lower before the war, sanctions and covid. 1.5-2 times, I say it as a Russian.
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  2.  @lornewazny7152  people who don't have modern heating systems are not living in cities. They are living in the country houses, and it is normal even in Europe, USA and Canada to heat country house by woods or coal. In Finland majority of houses in the country is heated by woods. Sometimes people themselves don't want gas or electro supply in their house, and not all Russians are living in block buildings, someone is living in village. And also there are many Russians who have 2, 3 or even more houses or flats, and dacha. Dacha is a Russian version of summer cottage, and because people do not live there on a permanent basis and rarely visit there, then they don't need heating. For example, I don't have heating in my dacha, but in the last 2 years I have been there only twice for a couple of days in the summer. Majority of Russians have gas supply, and some amount who lives in the countriside are using woods for heating, just like in Finland, Canada, and nordic countries. Russia don't have developed green energy, so if in Europe people use solar panels instead of gas, in Russia people use woods and coal
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  3.  @lornewazny7152  650 square foots is nearly 60 square metres, this is normal apartment, it is impossible to build more in Russian cold climate. Just look at the statistics in European countries - in all northern countries flats are smaller than in other Europe. Finnish flats aren't bigger than in Russia - in Finland average one-room flat is 45 metres, averagfe two-room flat is 65 metres. In Russia average flat is 60 metres. There is no difference between Russia, Finland, Norway, Canada. I'll tell you more - block houses in all countries across the World have average square metres of 60, you would have more if you are living in newly built house in the countryside.
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  4.  @lornewazny7152  Did you know that the pipes in the heating system are being changed and repaired, and new ones are being put in? The number of accidents in heating systems in Russia has decreased significantly compared to the nineties, and a lot of work has been done since 2001. In the nineties, an average of 15-17 thousand accidents in housing and communal services occurred in Russia, and since 2000 there has been a sharp drop, and from 2001 to 2024 the minimum level of 4 thousand accidents is maintained. Moreover, earlier in 15-17 thousand accidents there was a significant proportion of medium- and large-scale accidents, but now among 4 thousand accidents the vast majority of "accidents" are minor failures and trifles without consequences for people. For a country with a population of 140 million people, where there is no alternative to heating in winter, 4,000 minor accidents per year is a good indicator and much better than it was 24 years ago.
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  5.  @lornewazny7152  What does the Depression and the 1930s, which were 90 years ago, have to do with it? What does electricity have to do with it, if we were talking about heating? In Russia in the 1920s, the Communists carried out a massive electrification program, increasing the supply of electricity from ~10% to ~40% from 1921 to 1927. In America, under Roosevelt, the state created construction programs just to provide jobs during the crisis, because demand creates supply, and in order to produce and sell goods, you need to have a buyer with money, and when a third of the country was out of work, there was no buyer with money, so under Roosevelt in America they built a bunch of sometimes useless infrastructure to provide jobs. But 90 years have happened since then, what does this have to do with it at all? I said that green energy is developing in the West now and many people use solar panels in private homes, and in Russia, for various reasons, people in private country houses use firewood, as in Finland, Canada and the Nordic countries. Why are you talking about electricity, if we were talking about heating, I don't understand you. All Russian houses, even in rural areas have electricity.
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  6.  @lornewazny7152  yes, there are a single detached homes in Norway with woodfire and coal heating, and in Norway and Finland even larger percent of population uses coal and wood for heating than in Russia. And in Russia only people in single detached houses in rural use wood and coal for heating. All block buildings have gas supply, and even part of countryside.
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  7.  @lornewazny7152  you are living in your own cottage and laughing of Russians living in flats of 60 square meters, while 60 square meters is average across the Globe for a flat in the block, and even in Europe people who are living in block buildings have average 60 square meters flats. Why are you not laughing at Germans, Americans, French, Polish?
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