Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Rilot said:
Surely that's not the average Russian home.
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That's because when you think of Russia you're thinking of Moscow. The thing is life in Moscow is not that different to any Eastern european capital, same goes for St Peterburg. But anything outside of these two cities are poverty stricken.
The population of Moscow plus St Peterburg is 20 million; the other 100 million Russians live in conditions that's similar to an average to low class British household in the 1950s/60s - from clothes to appliances, housing interior design and cars - everything looks like its out of a time capsule from many decade ago and covered in all the dirt and rust you'd expect from it being that old (their houses and towns/villages are not clean).
 
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Yea, it looked very similiar to homes I've been to in Romania outside of Bucharest.

Also looked pretty similar to the Ukranian home on one of the vids showing a soldier returning from the front to see his parents, those bloody net curtains!
 
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Grim5 said:
That's because when you think of Russia you're thinking of Moscow. The thing is life in Moscow is not that different to any Eastern european capital, same goes for St Peterburg. But anything outside of these two cities are poverty stricken.
The population of Moscow plus St Peterburg is 20 million; the other 100 million Russians live in conditions that's similar to an average to low class British household in the 1950s/60s - from clothes to appliances, housing interior design and cars - everything looks like its out of a time capsule from many decade ago and covered in all the dirt and rust you'd expect from it being that old (their houses and towns/villages are not clean).
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I can understand living with just a handful of possessions because you can only afford the minimum. I can understand living with old possessions because you can't afford new ones. I can understand living with damaged possessions because you can't afford to get them repaired or replaced.

What I cannot understand is choosing to live in a filthy environment, especially when your home is so small it would take very little effort to maintain in a clean and hygienic state.
 
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In some places (e.g. rural Yakutsk) that is because you can't have running water as the pipes freeze due to the harsh climate.

Also, permafrost makes laying any pipework rather tricky.
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My wife tells me now and then about Siberia, and the frozen waste piles (including ladies time of the month) in the outside toilets. Dogs would come and lick the piles as well lol.
 
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Rilot said:
Surely that's not the average Russian home.
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Did you never wonder why they were stealing washing machines and anything they could get their hands on when the war started?

Outside Moscow and St Petersburg Russia is one massive **** hole.

Now look at who's fighting this war, yip its the people from these shitholes.

Recruitment from the two main cities had been avoided until now. When it was announced there was a massive dash to the borders from anyone in the conscription age group.

To date around 700k have managed to leave and avoid conscription.
ubersonic said:
Pretty sure Trumps super smart masterful peace plan is basically "You two stop fighting right now or I'll nuke you BOTH!"
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His peace plan was to let Russia keep what they occupy and then Blame Zelensky for refusing his very generous peace plan.
 
Grim5 said:
That's because when you think of Russia you're thinking of Moscow. The thing is life in Moscow is not that different to any Eastern european capital, same goes for St Peterburg. But anything outside of these two cities are poverty stricken.
The population of Moscow plus St Peterburg is 20 million; the other 100 million Russians live in conditions that's similar to an average to low class British household in the 1950s/60s - from clothes to appliances, housing interior design and cars - everything looks like its out of a time capsule from many decade ago and covered in all the dirt and rust you'd expect from it being that old (their houses and towns/villages are not clean).
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Belarus is very much the same. Minsk is a nice modern city, go out to the countryside and it's small wooden houses with no running water, plumbing or heating. A well in the garden for water, toilet is a shed in the garden with a hole in the ground and central heating is a wood fire in the middle of the house with 4 warm walls around it
 
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