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In USSR my grandfather's parents were stripped of everything they had and sent to Siberia with nothing but the cloth they were wearing. Skip a few years, my gr
by therusskiy 4y ago
In USSR my grandfather's parents were stripped of everything they had and sent to Siberia with nothing but the cloth they were wearing.
Skip a few years, my grandfather was the youngest doctor of science (in Russia that's next level from PhD) in his city in the field of Nuclear Physics and during his life was a dean in 3 different universities and a head of another one.
My 2nd grandfather was born in a village and had to tend for his younger sisters because his two older brothers were fighting in WW2 (and died there).
Skip a few years and he taught himself engineering and later became a head of a department in a big spaceship construction factory that employeed 10s of thousands of people, was doing research, travelled whole of soviet union overseeing testing of spaceship componponents.
Both died in poverty a few years ago: doing any government jobs in Russia is extremely unrewarding if you are an honest man.
(and here I am doing stupid crap in Javascript and Ruby earning 50 times what they did).
- genman 4y ago[flagged]
- texaslonghorn5 4y ago> The good thing about being a Russian is that you can only blame yourself for this fate. ???
- genman 4y agoIt's their country, they can elect a new government, develop as human being etc. If they don't well, it's on their own. But if they invade other countries and subjugate other nations to this misery then it's a tragedy - just recall that USSR was not a voluntary union and there are still over 100 different nations oppressed in Russia by this senseless system (see for example Russian Federal republics to get the idea). Russians tend to forget that and try to excuse the misery they have caused to others by claiming that they too suffered. That excuse is invalid. PS. All of this was actually explained in the following sentence.
- type0 4y ago> The good thing about being a Russian is that you can only blame yourself for this fate. Majority of Russians actually do this, that's why they try to drown their sorrows in vodka
- genman 4y ago[flagged]