Seem to suggest? SEEM TO SUGGEST! fuuuuu.... Look my grandparents died a few years ago in a small tiny village by the Volga, once you travel outside of Moscow

Seem to suggest? SEEM TO SUGGEST! fuuuuu.... Look my grandparents died a few years ago in a small tiny village by the Volga, once you travel outside of Moscow and Leningrad(StPetersburg nowadays) you may as well be time travelling into the past. The place had no paved roads leading to it had to travel couple of says on grotty trains to get there. The farming being done is subsistence with remnants of old Soviet coop in the village, alcoholism is rampant so is depression. It is understandable how one who might never has left Moscow doesn't realise how truly and incredibly poor the rest of the country is Now rural US or UK may as well be on a different planet when compared to that. This is all from personal experience, what has happened and is happening in Russia is beyond tragic. Now go ahead and come up with another "But but the US" US and Europe have all sorts of issues and are not perfect and no one claims they are, but they are damned better places for my kids to grow up in.