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Warpy

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4. Doesn't matter if it was a Khanate, a Czar, or a dictator
Thu Oct 10, 2024, 08:33 PM
Oct 2024

once one man has taken over throughout their history, the people have been robbed, assets stripped, the children of the leader and his friends sent outside Russia for education and a cushier lifewstyle, and the only way they ever had any hope for anything better was under Communism, where there was the illusion of a shared purpose even though the same system persisted.

They are not like us, they don't look out for each other. In Kursk, the neighbors of people who left looted the empty houses.

This is how they are, this is what they've done for generations in order to survive.

In time, they might learn a better way but that's not who they are right now

Please note I'm not particularly anti Russian, I grew up with a bunch of Russian cousins. It's just that the culture of that country over the last 800 years is totally antithetical to our own. I don't want to live that way.

Even Putin is starting to see the level of corruption as a bit of a problem now and has jailed some of the biggest thieves. Iy won't last..

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