Lived, did business, started business, ran businesses, a think tank and worked i

Lived, did business, started business, ran businesses, a think tank and worked intel in UA,RU. I think I understand just fine. Though the difference between Moscow St Petersburg and even the larger cities like Ekaterinburg are vast, and the rural folk live worse than ex slaves in 1930s Alabama.

It’s not a secret that the internet has radically changed RU over the past ten years, hence the school indoctrination, propaganda, and shutting down access to the web. And the diversity of opinion across the Russian generations and regions.

And its not a secret that RU people unlike UA people, live in fear of criticizing their government. So accurate polling is almost impossible.
But just as we have nitwits on both sides in the states and Europe we have nitwits on both sides in Russia. It’s just that Russians have a long history of magical thinking that’s worse than our right’s conspiracy theory and left’s oppression narrative. Including total ignorance of their relative position in the world, as well as their economy and military. Americans may be foolish but Russians are merely ignorant and indoctrinated.

Now, The reason I love them and love living among them is that neighbors work to help one another ,friends are like family, family is solid across generations, and work is on behalf of the family, social life is rich and people are gregarious and respectful in public , and politics is often out of the discussion entirely except with a brief acknowledgement of resignation. As someone from the upper tier I am always conscious of American class and status war, and I never experienced it nor demonstrated it there. Even better my open and gregarious personality kindness and care for them is appreciated.

They are right to dismiss liberalism when they consider it the very leftism they suffered under ,but even worse, because it’s designed to destroy social harmony, class harmony, race harmony, and most importantly sex harmony in the division of labor in marriage and family which is the core of every civilization – the first system of production. The production of us.

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