In an alternate timeline the 1991 August coup succeeded and Russia is still just a backwater Soviet shithole without internet access.
An oversized North Korea.
It could have been beautiful.

>>212298550 (OP)
>Russia is still just a backwater Soviet shithole without internet access.
it would surely have internet access, there was even .su domain (and Russian commiechuds still use it because they don't recognize the fall of the Soviet Union)

>>212299042
China has internet access too.
How often do you interact with Chinese people?
Or North Koreans?

>>212299365
>How often do you interact with Chinese people?
they just don't speak English

>>212299370
This nigga never heard of the great firewall.

>>212298550 (OP)
How is this different from the actual present?

They had .su domain howbeit

>>212299403
it's a meme
you can find Chinese on the (global) internet if you want and can speak Chinese

>>212299418
hey, i remember playing it

>>212299438
Thank you Poland for making this masterpiece.

>>212299403
The firewall doesn't block everything, just some things. It's just a big filter that doesn't allow certain websites or phrases (essentially every non-Chinese news website is blocked and so is Wikipedia).

>>212299494
>>212299424
>it's a meme
Retard alerts.
It works to encourage local development and cripple outside competition. Anything that gets too popular gets kneecapped and a local alternative springs up under CCP control.
It means there's no incentive for the vast, vast majority to even try and circumvent the firewall, even though it is technically easily done and a relative handful do.

>>212299565
i've seen Chinese anons on this board

>>212299565

>>212299565
Russians have everything covered as well from imageboards to email services, social media and what not, they even have a chuddy reddit called pikabu, they don't need to venture out much online.

>>212299627
...except they don't have a good equivalent of youtube, somehow, so you can see them spamming around there

>>212299656
Its not them doing the spamming. They sit around in their general finding new ways of experiencing nihilism.

>>212299741
Oh my bad I thought you said here.

guy on the far right is kino

>>212299783
very subtle and inconspicuous bodyguard