Is Putin disappointed with Trump? Putin answers that question...

[g5000]

Yes, every tinpot thug has reasons to be nervous about free speech and journalists. You bet they do.

That's why they kill them.

Our own media has done everything they can to demonize right wingers and white people resulting in a fractured nation.

BWA-HA-HA-HA!

The right wing media is completely innocent, right?

EEK! A homo!

EEK! A negro!

EEK! A Mexican!

EEK! A Muslim!

Yeah, no demonization going on here!

 

[impuretrash]

BWA-HA-HA-HA!

The right wing media is completely innocent, right?

Ha..ha..? By right wing media you mean fox news and only fox news. Newsflash asshole, most of the anchors there are anti-trump and of late show nothing but contempt for their viewership.

 

[g5000]

BWA-HA-HA-HA!

The right wing media is completely innocent, right?

Ha..ha..? By right wing media you mean fox news and only fox news. Newsflash asshole, most of the anchors there are anti-trump and of late show nothing but contempt for their viewership.

Breitbart, Daily Caller, Faux News, Infowars, Washington Times, CNS News.

There is a whole host of right wing propagandist outlets.

 

[g5000]

The point was Putin is a third world tinpot thug in a third world shithole.

He kills journalists who oppose him.

And Trump loves the guy.

 

[theHawk]

So, if you had to, you guys would live in Russia before any country in the EU?

There are plenty of other countries that reject globalism, some even within the EU. Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, ect., all great places with very few Muslims and no terror attacks.

I'd stick with western Europe, on average they have a better quality of life.

I doubt you've been to either.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Wow all of a sudden conservatives praise Russia and Putin? Looooooool
Russia that hacks Americans, annexes countries that are allies with the US...have spies in the USA, works against the interest of the US....wow.

Hahaha...look who showed up? An ignorant idiot who doesn't know the fact that the Cold War is over. Hacking has no evidence but there is evidence that an insider from the DNC leaked emails what the MSM is very quiet about. Spies are par for the course. Every country has spies. Israeli spies were busted in our Navy..hahahaha You need to get more creative than the stupidity what your masters gave you as talking points. What are the U.S. interests the Russians working against? Do not weasel your way out of it, answer the question with positive proof.

My pleasure....
The recent report from the intelligence at the Pentagon warned of Russia.
They annexed parts of US allies terroriteries
They assassinated oppositions in the Balkan who are allies to the US.
They are backing the Assad Regime.
General Mattis declares that Russia is the principal threat.
Show of force by flying their firejets close to US territories and allies skies.
When all the intelligence agencies warn of Russia whay higher power have to contradict them?

"We Need to Make Up the Fake Threat That Pays Off the Most"

There is no higher power than the military-industrial-media complex and its Cold War slush fund.

 

[impuretrash]

BWA-HA-HA-HA!

The right wing media is completely innocent, right?

EEK! A homo!

EEK! A negro!

EEK! A Mexican!

EEK! A Muslim!

Yeah, no demonization going on here!

Yeah because that's an accurate depiction of a typical daily daller or washington times article.

 

[HappyJoy]

So, if you had to, you guys would live in Russia before any country in the EU?

There are plenty of other countries that reject globalism, some even within the EU. Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, ect., all great places with very few Muslims and no terror attacks.

I'd stick with western Europe, on average they have a better quality of life.

I doubt you've been to either.

I've never been to Eastern Europe, but I can look up stats and the west side is the best side.

 

[Stratford57]

You know why America has been doing so well? In part because it attracts entrepreneurial people from all over the world who are willing to take a risk and work hard to make it.

Russia is just one of the places that they run from because of pervasive corruption and limited economic opportunities.

This is not just me speaking, this is what Russians themselves think:




And yet Russkies on this site do not seem to be concerned at all about Putin & Co pocketing billions and billions of dollars as a public servants. The very SYMBOL of the corruption that is a heavy burden on Russian economy and it's people. Instead you are fixated on gays and some nationalist white christianity nonsense.

Suckers is what you are.

Ok, ok, Russia is very poor and corrupted country... Wait. Is Russia so corrupted, why your Hillary cannot buy Putin with all his puppets to rule the world?

And if poor, downed and wasted Russian economics could produce one underwater cruiser with hundred nuclear heads per day - don't you think, it's a sort of powerful magic? Do you really believe in Santa Claus? )

Russia is so poor, so corrupt. USA is so great...that's what we hear from some brainwashed people.

But for some reason NASA uses Russian spaceships to send their Astronauts to International Space Station. I wonder, why?... That only can mean a couple of things: Russia builds more reliable spaceships than USA and USA absolutely trusts Russia as a partner and all their political talk about "bad" Russia is cheap.

Hey when you can buy something cheaper than it costs to build it, go for it. LOL

So, from your point of view, it's ok to hand the lives of American citizens (Astronauts) to one of your main enemies (according to your "leaders") just because it's cheaper? Hm-m-m.... Even a third world country wouldn't do that.

Obama called ebola, Russia and ISIS America’s greatest threats,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pe...adimir-putin-americas-greatest-threat/5486304

Oh, I thought your space vehicles worked oK. Dude, we cut a deal with FUCKING STALIN

To blame modern Russia for Stalin is same as to blame modern Germany for Hitler.

Go ahead and put sanctions on Germany because Hitler killed millions of people in Europe.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

You almost gotta laugh. Barry Hussein used to worry about what foreign potentates thought of him but there is a new Sheriff in town. Is that all the left has after the bombastic talk about Trump/Russia?

New Sherif talks very tough.

Tough on China, Tough on Democrats, tough on Republicans, Tough on immigrants, Tough on Media, Tough on our European allies.

TOUGH TOUGH TOUGH

But Sherif sure seems to have a conspicuously soft spot it seems for Kremlin, having NEVER talked negatively about Russia or Putin:

Why would he talk tough about Russia squatter? He wants peace what you don't like of course. Your war mongering rhetoric quite an indication of that. You want those Russian goods, don't you, sending us to war while you are sitting back in the comfy of your home.

Oh ok, so that's why he trashes our Euro allies, China, Australia etc. and cozies up to Putin?

He is just a pussy that doesn't want to upset Vladimir Vladimirovich into starting WW3

So, everybody who doesn't want WW3 is a pussy? Wow! It's too dumb even for a liberal.

Vlads Have Nads

The hidden emotional reason for wimpy, female-dominated Liblings' Russophobia is Putin's macho image. Just when the squeaky-voiced hollow-chested delicate daffodils were making so much progress in emasculating America, along comes Putin to offer a tough-guy image to compete with FUBARack Wussein Obambi.

 

[Sbiker]

Russia had many waves of migration during late USSR and after, but I feel horror, when I think, people in world consider Russians as someone from this migration waves ) Much of them just have a "villager complex"

You know why America has been doing so well? In part because it attracts entrepreneurial people from all over the world who are willing to take a risk and work hard to make it.

Russia is just one of the places that they run from because of pervasive corruption and limited economic opportunities.

This is not just me speaking, this is what Russians themselves think:

And yet Russkies on this site do not seem to be concerned at all about Putin & Co pocketing billions and billions of dollars as a public servants. The very SYMBOL of the corruption that is a heavy burden on Russian economy and it's people. Instead you are fixated on gays and some nationalist white christianity nonsense.

Suckers is what you are.

Ok, ok, Russia is very poor and corrupted country... Wait. Is Russia so corrupted, why your Hillary cannot buy Putin with all his puppets to rule the world?

And if poor, downed and wasted Russian economics could produce one underwater cruiser with hundred nuclear heads per day - don't you think, it's a sort of powerful magic? Do you really believe in Santa Claus? )

What the fuck?

1. Putin is a billionaire,

"If you are so clever, show me his money" ))

 

[Sbiker]

"You think life is so great in the E.U ..."

The Left usually parrots mindless bumper-stickers not based on reality....


BTW.... "It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable," wrote [Paul] Samuelson in the tenth edition of his textbook "Economics." This, mind you, in the aftermath of the 1953 East German uprising, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Poznan protests in Poland, the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia--all suppressed with bloodshed by Soviet tanks."
http://www.beichman.com/Articles/SAMUELSN.htm

Which, of course, explains all the Russian ex-pats buying real estate in London, Paris and New York, and sticking all their money in a London, Switzerland, Cyprus and the Caymans, compared to all the Europeans living in all these awful EU countries fleeing to Moscow and stashing their money in Russian banks.

Maybe, Russian ex-pats, stealing a lot of Russian money, are not enough criminalized to live comfortable in criminal and corrupted Russia... Or Putin just waiting of "Rat Wolf" born from them, with gathered capital, which must be returned to Russia back...

Except that they do live comfortable lives in Russia.

Just walk through Mayfair or Belgravia or other neighborhoods in London where rich Russians have bought homes, or apartments in places such as Billionaire's Row in midtown Manhattan, and you see few people actually living in them.

It's a place for the Russian kleptocracy who rule the country to store their wealth.

All their capitals are illegal by western laws and can be confiscated any time. And these kleptocrats are keeping all their money under threat of confiscation, instead of placing them somewhere in country, which is fully under their rule???? What's the reason? Do you think, they're all idiots???

?? What laws?

The laws like this: Criminal Finances Act 2017 — UK Parliament

 

[Sbiker]

No, you don't know how to reply because you are ignorant and woefully so. You think life is so great in the E.U that has been hit with huge austerity measures so that they can continue to "borrow" from the IMF that asks for more and more of their country's resources as collateral? Yeah, I am going to say that you are either an idiot or hopelessly stupid and ignorant.

"You think life is so great in the E.U ..."

The Left usually parrots mindless bumper-stickers not based on reality....


BTW.... "It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable," wrote [Paul] Samuelson in the tenth edition of his textbook "Economics." This, mind you, in the aftermath of the 1953 East German uprising, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Poznan protests in Poland, the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia--all suppressed with bloodshed by Soviet tanks."
http://www.beichman.com/Articles/SAMUELSN.htm

Which, of course, explains all the Russian ex-pats buying real estate in London, Paris and New York, and sticking all their money in a London, Switzerland, Cyprus and the Caymans, compared to all the Europeans living in all these awful EU countries fleeing to Moscow and stashing their money in Russian banks.

Maybe, Russian ex-pats, stealing a lot of Russian money, are not enough criminalized to live comfortable in criminal and corrupted Russia... Or Putin just waiting of "Rat Wolf" born from them, with gathered capital, which must be returned to Russia back...

Except that they do live comfortable lives in Russia.

Just walk through Mayfair or Belgravia or other neighborhoods in London where rich Russians have bought homes, or apartments in places such as Billionaire's Row in midtown Manhattan, and you see few people actually living in them.

It's a place for the Russian kleptocracy who rule the country to store their wealth.

I can help with your education......

"Communal apartments, where strangers lived as one big family, shaped many generations of Soviet and Russian citizens, and continue to exist even today. The lack of a private life, a striving to dole out rights and responsibilities equally, snitching, and a willingness to help one’s neighbors were all characteristic of an upbringing in a communal apartment.

Communal apartments are a unique Russian phenomenon. They first appeared after the revolution in 1917, when residential real estate became public property. The authorities began to divide up the apartments of wealthy citizens into smaller units in order to solve the chronic housing shortage brought on by the country’s rapid industrialization, which attracted many people to big cities. During the chaotic period of the 1920s, many peasants were also forced to seek shelter in cities in order to survive as collectivization robbed them of a livelihood. Securing a job at a factory or institution meant that they could get a room in a communal apartment.

An adult was eligible for about 10 square meters, and a child was eligible for five (these regulations changed later). The peasants of yesterday were the new neighbors of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia; kitchen staff started sharing bathrooms with university professors. This lifestyle may not have been easy, but it adhered to the official ideology of Communal apartments are a unique Russian phenomenon. This description still holds true for many surviving kommunalki today, in which little appears to have changed in the last 30 or 40 years.



According to official data cited by Ilya Utekhin in Sketches of Communal Living, even as late as 2001, communal apartments comprised 35-38 percent of housing in central St. Petersburg and over 10 percent of the city’s total housing stock. Even today, the city has more communal apartments than any other city in Russia and it is not unusual to meet somebody who lives in a kommunalka.

The demand for rooms in communal apartments remains stable. In Moscow, not everyone can afford to rent an apartment (rent costs about $850-900), but rooms in communal apartments (about $500-625) are affordable to a lot of young people and those who have relocated to Moscow from other cities." In it together: How communal apartments shaped the outlook of generations



"In Petersburg, when the apartments of the bourgeoisie were divided for the workers, sometimes a door was left. Was a time the wet nurse's room and the nursery. Now for three, four, five families. A door in an old wall. If you had such a door, into your neighbor's apartment,you kept it a secret. A bookcase in front of it. Yes. A way to get out. When they come for you. "
From the novel "Skinner," Charlie Huston, p. 197.

I'm living in Moscow now. Where do you find any "Kommunalka"? I think, it costs now much more than 500$ to rent, because it's rarity. It's easily checkable at ЦИАН – база недвижимости в Москве | Продажа, аренда квартир и другой недвижимости )))))))))))))

 

[Sbiker]

Russia had many waves of migration during late USSR and after, but I feel horror, when I think, people in world consider Russians as someone from this migration waves ) Much of them just have a "villager complex"

You know why America has been doing so well? In part because it attracts entrepreneurial people from all over the world who are willing to take a risk and work hard to make it.

Russia is just one of the places that they run from because of pervasive corruption and limited economic opportunities.

This is not just me speaking, this is what Russians themselves think:

And yet Russkies on this site do not seem to be concerned at all about Putin & Co pocketing billions and billions of dollars as a public servants. The very SYMBOL of the corruption that is a heavy burden on Russian economy and it's people. Instead you are fixated on gays and some nationalist white christianity nonsense.

Suckers is what you are.

Ok, ok, Russia is very poor and corrupted country... Wait. Is Russia so corrupted, why your Hillary cannot buy Putin with all his puppets to rule the world?

And if poor, downed and wasted Russian economics could produce one underwater cruiser with hundred nuclear heads per day - don't you think, it's a sort of powerful magic? Do you really believe in Santa Claus? )

Russia is so poor, so corrupt. USA is so great...that's what we hear from some brainwashed people.

But for some reason NASA uses Russian spaceships to send their Astronauts to International Space Station. I wonder, why?... That only can mean a couple of things: Russia builds more reliable spaceships than USA and USA absolutely trusts Russia as a partner and all their political talk about "bad" Russia is cheap.

If space rockets and jets were a measure of good life quality Russians would have some of the best living in the world.

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Russian economy was always good at big central control effort projects like putting rockets into space...but disastrous at improving quality of life for it's citizens down here on earth.

Today Russian economy is good at pooling it's resources into the pockets of Russian oligarchs and like great Russian space tech, they are some of the richest rich people in the world...but that economy has been failing the common man and there is no real middle class to speak of.

You know, we have space rocket jets only because our domestic bears need a job to apply their skills. They also like to build nuclear reactors for us, but when they drunk vodka at every morning, they don't like too easy tasks...

 

[Sbiker]

Sanctions are relatively ineffective because as Russia is foreclosed from accessing other markets because it cannot afford goods produced, it subsitutes local products, which can be produced cheaper because there is no currency exchange. While the products available to consumers are not as good as W. European products, the population is satisfied because of nationalism and xenophobia.

It is probably not a coincidence Putin preferred Trump to Clinton

Not only sanctions, I think. Using $ to compare Russian economics is very approximate tool, especially in closed areas, like defence industry It's a real source of legends about "Putin got money from nothing" or "Putin stole money of all Russian people to raise an army" ))

 

[Sbiker]

You know why America has been doing so well? In part because it attracts entrepreneurial people from all over the world who are willing to take a risk and work hard to make it.

Russia is just one of the places that they run from because of pervasive corruption and limited economic opportunities.

This is not just me speaking, this is what Russians themselves think:




And yet Russkies on this site do not seem to be concerned at all about Putin & Co pocketing billions and billions of dollars as a public servants. The very SYMBOL of the corruption that is a heavy burden on Russian economy and it's people. Instead you are fixated on gays and some nationalist white christianity nonsense.

Suckers is what you are.

Ok, ok, Russia is very poor and corrupted country... Wait. Is Russia so corrupted, why your Hillary cannot buy Putin with all his puppets to rule the world?

And if poor, downed and wasted Russian economics could produce one underwater cruiser with hundred nuclear heads per day - don't you think, it's a sort of powerful magic? Do you really believe in Santa Claus? )

Russia is so poor, so corrupt. USA is so great...that's what we hear from some brainwashed people.

But for some reason NASA uses Russian spaceships to send their Astronauts to International Space Station. I wonder, why?... That only can mean a couple of things: Russia builds more reliable spaceships than USA and USA absolutely trusts Russia as a partner and all their political talk about "bad" Russia is cheap.

Hey when you can buy something cheaper than it costs to build it, go for it. LOL

So, from your point of view, it's ok to hand the lives of American citizens (Astronauts) to one of your main enemies (according to your "leaders") just because it's cheaper? Hm-m-m.... Even a third world country wouldn't do that.

Obama called ebola, Russia and ISIS America’s greatest threats,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pe...adimir-putin-americas-greatest-threat/5486304

Oh, I thought your space vehicles worked oK. Dude, we cut a deal with FUCKING STALIN

Why he is FUCKING? Because he made an anti-nuclear and anti-rocket shield to Russia? Because he didn't allow to US to kill 150 millions of Soviet people?

 

[PoliticalChic]

"You think life is so great in the E.U ..."

The Left usually parrots mindless bumper-stickers not based on reality....


BTW.... "It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable," wrote [Paul] Samuelson in the tenth edition of his textbook "Economics." This, mind you, in the aftermath of the 1953 East German uprising, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Poznan protests in Poland, the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia--all suppressed with bloodshed by Soviet tanks."
http://www.beichman.com/Articles/SAMUELSN.htm

Which, of course, explains all the Russian ex-pats buying real estate in London, Paris and New York, and sticking all their money in a London, Switzerland, Cyprus and the Caymans, compared to all the Europeans living in all these awful EU countries fleeing to Moscow and stashing their money in Russian banks.

Maybe, Russian ex-pats, stealing a lot of Russian money, are not enough criminalized to live comfortable in criminal and corrupted Russia... Or Putin just waiting of "Rat Wolf" born from them, with gathered capital, which must be returned to Russia back...

Except that they do live comfortable lives in Russia.

Just walk through Mayfair or Belgravia or other neighborhoods in London where rich Russians have bought homes, or apartments in places such as Billionaire's Row in midtown Manhattan, and you see few people actually living in them.

It's a place for the Russian kleptocracy who rule the country to store their wealth.

I can help with your education......

"Communal apartments, where strangers lived as one big family, shaped many generations of Soviet and Russian citizens, and continue to exist even today. The lack of a private life, a striving to dole out rights and responsibilities equally, snitching, and a willingness to help one’s neighbors were all characteristic of an upbringing in a communal apartment.

Communal apartments are a unique Russian phenomenon. They first appeared after the revolution in 1917, when residential real estate became public property. The authorities began to divide up the apartments of wealthy citizens into smaller units in order to solve the chronic housing shortage brought on by the country’s rapid industrialization, which attracted many people to big cities. During the chaotic period of the 1920s, many peasants were also forced to seek shelter in cities in order to survive as collectivization robbed them of a livelihood. Securing a job at a factory or institution meant that they could get a room in a communal apartment.

An adult was eligible for about 10 square meters, and a child was eligible for five (these regulations changed later). The peasants of yesterday were the new neighbors of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia; kitchen staff started sharing bathrooms with university professors. This lifestyle may not have been easy, but it adhered to the official ideology of Communal apartments are a unique Russian phenomenon. This description still holds true for many surviving kommunalki today, in which little appears to have changed in the last 30 or 40 years.



According to official data cited by Ilya Utekhin in Sketches of Communal Living, even as late as 2001, communal apartments comprised 35-38 percent of housing in central St. Petersburg and over 10 percent of the city’s total housing stock. Even today, the city has more communal apartments than any other city in Russia and it is not unusual to meet somebody who lives in a kommunalka.

The demand for rooms in communal apartments remains stable. In Moscow, not everyone can afford to rent an apartment (rent costs about $850-900), but rooms in communal apartments (about $500-625) are affordable to a lot of young people and those who have relocated to Moscow from other cities." In it together: How communal apartments shaped the outlook of generations



"In Petersburg, when the apartments of the bourgeoisie were divided for the workers, sometimes a door was left. Was a time the wet nurse's room and the nursery. Now for three, four, five families. A door in an old wall. If you had such a door, into your neighbor's apartment,you kept it a secret. A bookcase in front of it. Yes. A way to get out. When they come for you. "
From the novel "Skinner," Charlie Huston, p. 197.

I'm living in Moscow now. Where do you find any "Kommunalka"? I think, it costs now much more than 500$ to rent, because it's rarity. It's easily checkable at ЦИАН – база недвижимости в Москве | Продажа, аренда квартир и другой недвижимости )))))))))))))

To rent an apartment

• 1-room apartment 5 280
• 2-room apartments 9 572
• 3-room apartments 8 551
• Studios 64
• Rooms in the apartment 3 027
• ЦИАН – база недвижимости в Москве | Продажа, аренда квартир и другой недвижимости

 

[Stratford57]

"You think life is so great in the E.U ..."

The Left usually parrots mindless bumper-stickers not based on reality....


BTW.... "It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable," wrote [Paul] Samuelson in the tenth edition of his textbook "Economics." This, mind you, in the aftermath of the 1953 East German uprising, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Poznan protests in Poland, the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia--all suppressed with bloodshed by Soviet tanks."
http://www.beichman.com/Articles/SAMUELSN.htm

Which, of course, explains all the Russian ex-pats buying real estate in London, Paris and New York, and sticking all their money in a London, Switzerland, Cyprus and the Caymans, compared to all the Europeans living in all these awful EU countries fleeing to Moscow and stashing their money in Russian banks.

Maybe, Russian ex-pats, stealing a lot of Russian money, are not enough criminalized to live comfortable in criminal and corrupted Russia... Or Putin just waiting of "Rat Wolf" born from them, with gathered capital, which must be returned to Russia back...

Except that they do live comfortable lives in Russia.

Just walk through Mayfair or Belgravia or other neighborhoods in London where rich Russians have bought homes, or apartments in places such as Billionaire's Row in midtown Manhattan, and you see few people actually living in them.

It's a place for the Russian kleptocracy who rule the country to store their wealth.

I can help with your education......

"Communal apartments, where strangers lived as one big family, shaped many generations of Soviet and Russian citizens, and continue to exist even today. The lack of a private life, a striving to dole out rights and responsibilities equally, snitching, and a willingness to help one’s neighbors were all characteristic of an upbringing in a communal apartment.

Communal apartments are a unique Russian phenomenon. They first appeared after the revolution in 1917, when residential real estate became public property. The authorities began to divide up the apartments of wealthy citizens into smaller units in order to solve the chronic housing shortage brought on by the country’s rapid industrialization, which attracted many people to big cities. During the chaotic period of the 1920s, many peasants were also forced to seek shelter in cities in order to survive as collectivization robbed them of a livelihood. Securing a job at a factory or institution meant that they could get a room in a communal apartment.

An adult was eligible for about 10 square meters, and a child was eligible for five (these regulations changed later). The peasants of yesterday were the new neighbors of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia; kitchen staff started sharing bathrooms with university professors. This lifestyle may not have been easy, but it adhered to the official ideology of Communal apartments are a unique Russian phenomenon. This description still holds true for many surviving kommunalki today, in which little appears to have changed in the last 30 or 40 years.



According to official data cited by Ilya Utekhin in Sketches of Communal Living, even as late as 2001, communal apartments comprised 35-38 percent of housing in central St. Petersburg and over 10 percent of the city’s total housing stock. Even today, the city has more communal apartments than any other city in Russia and it is not unusual to meet somebody who lives in a kommunalka.

The demand for rooms in communal apartments remains stable. In Moscow, not everyone can afford to rent an apartment (rent costs about $850-900), but rooms in communal apartments (about $500-625) are affordable to a lot of young people and those who have relocated to Moscow from other cities." In it together: How communal apartments shaped the outlook of generations



"In Petersburg, when the apartments of the bourgeoisie were divided for the workers, sometimes a door was left. Was a time the wet nurse's room and the nursery. Now for three, four, five families. A door in an old wall. If you had such a door, into your neighbor's apartment,you kept it a secret. A bookcase in front of it. Yes. A way to get out. When they come for you. "
From the novel "Skinner," Charlie Huston, p. 197.

I'm living in Moscow now. Where do you find any "Kommunalka"? I think, it costs now much more than 500$ to rent, because it's rarity. It's easily checkable at ЦИАН – база недвижимости в Москве | Продажа, аренда квартир и другой недвижимости )))))))))))))

Some Americans still think Russia is as bad and corrupt like it was in 90-s last century. But that's what their Media wants them to believe.

BTW, some of them support 'democratic' Ukraine, but can't find it on the map. Some of them support nuking North Korea but can't find it on the map. Just fascinating...



ABC: How Many Americans Know Where North Korea Is? 80% had no idea where NK was.

 

[bendog]

Sanctions are relatively ineffective because as Russia is foreclosed from accessing other markets because it cannot afford goods produced, it subsitutes local products, which can be produced cheaper because there is no currency exchange. While the products available to consumers are not as good as W. European products, the population is satisfied because of nationalism and xenophobia.

It is probably not a coincidence Putin preferred Trump to Clinton

Not only sanctions, I think. Using $ to compare Russian economics is very approximate tool, especially in closed areas, like defence industry It's a real source of legends about "Putin got money from nothing" or "Putin stole money of all Russian people to raise an army" ))

Well,

Ok, ok, Russia is very poor and corrupted country... Wait. Is Russia so corrupted, why your Hillary cannot buy Putin with all his puppets to rule the world?

And if poor, downed and wasted Russian economics could produce one underwater cruiser with hundred nuclear heads per day - don't you think, it's a sort of powerful magic? Do you really believe in Santa Claus? )

Russia is so poor, so corrupt. USA is so great...that's what we hear from some brainwashed people.

But for some reason NASA uses Russian spaceships to send their Astronauts to International Space Station. I wonder, why?... That only can mean a couple of things: Russia builds more reliable spaceships than USA and USA absolutely trusts Russia as a partner and all their political talk about "bad" Russia is cheap.

Hey when you can buy something cheaper than it costs to build it, go for it. LOL

So, from your point of view, it's ok to hand the lives of American citizens (Astronauts) to one of your main enemies (according to your "leaders") just because it's cheaper? Hm-m-m.... Even a third world country wouldn't do that.

Obama called ebola, Russia and ISIS America’s greatest threats,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pe...adimir-putin-americas-greatest-threat/5486304

Oh, I thought your space vehicles worked oK. Dude, we cut a deal with FUCKING STALIN

Why he is FUCKING? Because he made an anti-nuclear and anti-rocket shield to Russia? Because he didn't allow to US to kill 150 millions of Soviet people?

Stalin, dude. Stalin. Right hand man to Satan. Made Mao look ... somewhat human. We did a deal with Stalin, and we'd do it again.

 

[Sbiker]

Which, of course, explains all the Russian ex-pats buying real estate in London, Paris and New York, and sticking all their money in a London, Switzerland, Cyprus and the Caymans, compared to all the Europeans living in all these awful EU countries fleeing to Moscow and stashing their money in Russian banks.

Maybe, Russian ex-pats, stealing a lot of Russian money, are not enough criminalized to live comfortable in criminal and corrupted Russia... Or Putin just waiting of "Rat Wolf" born from them, with gathered capital, which must be returned to Russia back...

Except that they do live comfortable lives in Russia.

Just walk through Mayfair or Belgravia or other neighborhoods in London where rich Russians have bought homes, or apartments in places such as Billionaire's Row in midtown Manhattan, and you see few people actually living in them.

It's a place for the Russian kleptocracy who rule the country to store their wealth.

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"Communal apartments, where strangers lived as one big family, shaped many generations of Soviet and Russian citizens, and continue to exist even today. The lack of a private life, a striving to dole out rights and responsibilities equally, snitching, and a willingness to help one’s neighbors were all characteristic of an upbringing in a communal apartment.

Communal apartments are a unique Russian phenomenon. They first appeared after the revolution in 1917, when residential real estate became public property. The authorities began to divide up the apartments of wealthy citizens into smaller units in order to solve the chronic housing shortage brought on by the country’s rapid industrialization, which attracted many people to big cities. During the chaotic period of the 1920s, many peasants were also forced to seek shelter in cities in order to survive as collectivization robbed them of a livelihood. Securing a job at a factory or institution meant that they could get a room in a communal apartment.

An adult was eligible for about 10 square meters, and a child was eligible for five (these regulations changed later). The peasants of yesterday were the new neighbors of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia; kitchen staff started sharing bathrooms with university professors. This lifestyle may not have been easy, but it adhered to the official ideology of Communal apartments are a unique Russian phenomenon. This description still holds true for many surviving kommunalki today, in which little appears to have changed in the last 30 or 40 years.



According to official data cited by Ilya Utekhin in Sketches of Communal Living, even as late as 2001, communal apartments comprised 35-38 percent of housing in central St. Petersburg and over 10 percent of the city’s total housing stock. Even today, the city has more communal apartments than any other city in Russia and it is not unusual to meet somebody who lives in a kommunalka.

The demand for rooms in communal apartments remains stable. In Moscow, not everyone can afford to rent an apartment (rent costs about $850-900), but rooms in communal apartments (about $500-625) are affordable to a lot of young people and those who have relocated to Moscow from other cities." In it together: How communal apartments shaped the outlook of generations



"In Petersburg, when the apartments of the bourgeoisie were divided for the workers, sometimes a door was left. Was a time the wet nurse's room and the nursery. Now for three, four, five families. A door in an old wall. If you had such a door, into your neighbor's apartment,you kept it a secret. A bookcase in front of it. Yes. A way to get out. When they come for you. "
From the novel "Skinner," Charlie Huston, p. 197.

I'm living in Moscow now. Where do you find any "Kommunalka"? I think, it costs now much more than 500$ to rent, because it's rarity. It's easily checkable at ЦИАН – база недвижимости в Москве | Продажа, аренда квартир и другой недвижимости )))))))))))))

To rent an apartment

• 1-room apartment 5 280
• 2-room apartments 9 572
• 3-room apartments 8 551
• Studios 64
• Rooms in the apartment 3 027
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Yes, offcourse... What about "kommunalkas"?