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Iran, Venezuela and Cuba are and were shitholes compared to todays Russia. The immediate QoL impact on the average Russian will be far bigger than it was for th
by rosndo 5y ago
Iran, Venezuela and Cuba are and were shitholes compared to todays Russia. The immediate QoL impact on the average Russian will be far bigger than it was for the average citizens of those countries.
- nopcode 5y ago> QoL impact on the average Russian What is the "average" Russian exactly? Moscow and St. Petersburg is only ~10% of the population. ~20% is completely rural (Boratesque) and the remainder (from what I've seen from vloggers) is _extremely_ depressing isolated small cities.
- rosndo 5y agoYou’re absolutely right, I definitely abused “average” there. Really I meant the middle classes and up. I mean the places which matter, big cities like Moscow, St Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don. The Boratesque villagers won’t be the ones who might overthrow the government, but the city-dwellers could.
- alisonatwork 5y agoIran, Venezuela and Cuba had/have a decent middle class too, if you ignore the rural peasants and people in other places that "don't matter".
- telchior 5y agoThis surprised me, so I checked. Moscow + St. Petersburg metro areas are 25+ million. They're actually 17% of the population, which is still pretty low considering their importance; Moscow's GDP alone is listed as $1 trillion, while Russia as a whole is $1.48 trillion. So the 20 million people in Moscow hold a lot more power, relatively, than the far-scattered 120 million