If you grew up in post collapse USSR, you aren't of the age where you have to deal with the problems the parent post describes. It's important to recognize your

If you grew up in post collapse USSR, you aren't of the age where you have to deal with the problems the parent post describes. It's important to recognize your lack of personal experience with it. I'm not saying that post collapse USSR wasn't a bad time. It was an absolutely horrible time and I am glad you're here. But it's important to recognize people have different challenges and live different lives than you. I'm likely much younger than you. My parents were able to afford to raise me in a house they owned, at my current age. I am not and nowhere near that buying power. My parents can look forward to a retirement fund. I cannot. My parents were able to work through the summer to pay for their graduate degrees. Graduate degrees are too expensive for me to attain, now. My parents could afford to take me to the emergency room when I had fevers as a child. I cannot afford a single emergency room visit for anything.