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Funny or just sad? (europe.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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This comic is kinda old already, but still stays relevant.

Real fishy
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[–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You vastly underestimate how poor a bunch of Russians are, the poor class often stays behind when a crisis hits. While the middle and upper classes use their wealth and connections to jump the boat.

Most refugees were relative to their country, not poor.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Stays behind when crisis hit? The crisis is of their own doing. Russia is a rotten country and a rotten culture that has no one else to blame.

    I generally don't like destructive change like revolution but Russians will never recover, never. The culture is so far gone and so broken and so passive that the best thing that could happen to an average russian is complete dissolution of the entire Russian project into independent smaller states.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    I generally don’t like destructive change like revolution but Russians will never recover, never. The culture is so far gone and so broken and so passive that the best thing that could happen to an average russian is complete dissolution of the entire Russian project into independent smaller states.

    What a simplistic and reductive worldview. You would do well as an orientalist professor at Oxford in the 1800's. You should look into phrenology.

    All you're saying here could be said about most nations, as I exemplified with Britain.

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