• andxz@lemmy.world
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      Part history, part cultural differences. It would take quite the write-up to get into those two in relation to Russia, but that’s the short answer.

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      Memory of conditions following the collapse of the USSR? For the most part conditions are still way better than they were 30 years ago in Russia, but who knows if they keep sliding back