Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "The Crumbling of Modern Russia" video.

  1.  @ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45  Yes, but how do you think Yeltsin got re-elected in 1996 with 6% approval rating? Here's a hint: it's red, white, blue, and this case case very green (Longer version: Not only did the US Treasury guide Russia's economic policy after the collapse, making conditions horrible overall, they also worsened things by helping Yeltsin rig the 1996 elections; advisors flown out to Moscow every single week, $10B IMF loan "mysteriously" not used for development, Clinton personally saying "I want this guy to win so bad, it hurts", 1M votes for Yeltsin in Chechnya where only 500K were registered to vote).
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  2. Eh, social services are still suffering, and despite growth on paper much of the benefits go to the oligarchs. Most young people in Russia, their first goal is to leave, ironically to the US (which tells me they have been brainwashed, life in the States is too fast paced and most people are not, in fact, all that well off.)
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  3.  @alexandraolvera5903  Thank you for the insight, but the problem is not easy to change: their only experience (what they see as "society" as a whole) was that, during Russia's Westernization times, things were better for them. As Putin became more and more authoritarian, things got worse. Their entire lifespan, period when they were aware of developments, is 20 or so years. Of course, it is not that simple: things were much, much worse under the last President Yeltsin, when Russia was fully embracing the West. But since they were all born after that period (2000s and later), they laugh and say that older russians are just brainwashed by soviet propaganda. Ironically, it was the rejection of western ideas (open democracy, completely free markets) that allowed the russian government to reign in the mafia, some of the oligarchs' money laundering, collapse of public services, etc I wish more russians would stay and come to an 'agreement' with the oligarchs and government: you can keep all the money you stole, but stay out of politics! And to the government: stop siphoning all the money to Moscow, and stop allowing china to steal natural resources!
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  4.  @sarkolas  Probably access to automobiles, high-tech consumer goods and clothes (created by cheap labor, but still)
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  5.  @timonrein6113  Yes, bit it is a far cry from the predictions and hopes of Western outlets: that Russia's economy would completely collapse.
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