These dudes are obviously old white dudes who by their own admission were pretty well off already, but the objective things they are relaying blew my mind. I already knew about the QOL of the USSR and how sharply it declined following its collapse but I had no idea that it had rebounded. I’m already used to not believing anything Americans say about other countries, but I admit I had no idea modern Russia had this much good going for it domestically and had a vague idea only based off of the West’s negative fictional horseshit.
Do our Russian comrades here attest to this?
Also if you like the video check out the channel’s newer videos, the journalist is in the Donetsk!
Sounds like one of them is a tour guide in St Petersburg, but it wasn’t clear.
Thanks! Well St Pete’s used to be similar to Moscow in a sense that it was above the rest in QOL. Although it has obviously suffered heavily in the 90’s.
Nowadays it’s a different matter, AFAIK. They still have some great architecture and quality diners, but the communal services (i.e. snow removal) are lacking, people occasionally find dismembered bodies and all that.
Dropping this right after complaints about snow removal is something else lol
Its a running joke about St Pete, there is even an untranslateable word play nickname for it.