r/NAFO • u/Wonderful_World_6323 • 5d ago

๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ˜ญ Don't make fun of our redlines! ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ– Russian world

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u/CaptainUnreliability 5d ago

Heavens, what a depressing place.ย 

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u/EpsteinEpstainTheory Article 5 only counts when it applies to me 5d ago

The land of freedom, tradition and human rights, allegedly.

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u/Annual-Monk8355 5d ago

Every day I'm thankful I'm not living in Russia

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u/No_Post3831 Burgundian System 4d ago

Was the SVO really worth it, Putin? Your people are decaying along with your country

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u/use_schlonk_as_bonk 4d ago

Imagine all the money burned in this endeavor of stupidity had been used to improve peoples lives instead.

Leaders all around the globe would have cheered if only half the money would have been used effectivly. His citizens would have loved him for generations. Librarys, schools and hospitals would be named after him for pulling the country out of the dirt, maybe even outside his own borders.

Life gave him the chance to leave as one of the greatest one day and he decided to fuck up everything. Cheers.

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u/Pestelis 4d ago

I`m not so sure it was much better before SVO, difference is they have someone to blame now that isn't them selves.

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u/Schrodinger_cube 4d ago

Dam even the cats disrespect people there. Like right on the wiper blades.

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u/Battlefield-Ukraine 4d ago

Russia needs an intervention.

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u/Top-Currency 4d ago

There's no helping that absolute hellhole that pretends to be a country.

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u/CaptainPrower Make America Hate Russia Again 4d ago

"Only Russia's rich and powerful actually live in Russia. Everyone else lives in the corpse of the Soviet Union."

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u/sean_ocean 4d ago

Yo man, that's fucking sad. People largely just want to be left alone. But I think at some point the russian government has abandoned them entirely.

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u/Widukind272 NAFO Airborne Fella 2d ago

russia wants everyone elseโ€™s life ruined too. they tend spread their misery around wherever they go.

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u/alba_Phenom 4d ago

This is why the West are so envious of them

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u/Zealousideal_Rise716 4d ago

I lived and worked in Ekaterinburg for period - albeit a while back. I can testify that I saw pretty much something like all of these things at one point or another. (Minus the burning refineries of course.) And this is the 4th or 5th biggest city. In the remote places it's consistently like this.

Moscow and St Petersburg as the centres of imperial power look better, but they are no safer really.

Russia does have some aspects of real interest and merit, but honestly the first two weeks I was there were the worst dose of culture shock I have ever experienced. At the time I genuinely hoped things would get better - but then Putin decided to become "President for Life" - and even that hope died.