>>509316585I believe you.
I've heard a lot of good things about russia from general people.
Always think about an interview too from a while back, where they were asking people who lived during the soviet union to compare their lifestyles to after and the general consensus was: "We had limited options but could afford all of it, then we had unlimited options and could afford none of them."
I also worked with a russian immigrant at one point, she was very pretty. Anyway I was on lunch break and watching the news and for whatever reason our news was reporting that Putin was going to boost birth rates by giving new parents an SUV.
I went back to work and told her about it and she just flatly goes "it is a lie".
She was nice to work with but got fired for stealing but that's a whole side story.