What will you be doing for New Years Eve?
Well I think so, there is no place like home and it's weird to live in a place when everyone speaks a language you can't understand.
But the nature and weather is good the only downside it never snows here so Christmas spirit is completely ruined.
Since forever
https://simplewine.ru/catalog/shampanskoe_i_igristoe_vino/filter/country-rossiya/
Avg price is below 1k rub which is 11 euro
>How old are you tovarish?
I'm 30, my wild guess is champagne was maybe good in USSR im a sovietboo, dont bash me for it because literally everything that comes after it is fucking shit.
Russia can not produce any decent product period.
Because our idiots oligarchs only cared about destroying soviet economy in 90's making shopping malls out of factory buildings and now they only care about selling raw natural resources.
You remember they banned European cheese and guess what, after years of monopoly Russia still cant produce decent cheese. A fucking cheese.
And this country was a superpower once.
>Can we have assburger srs discussion about how the fall started with brezhnev and how his lack of accountability allowed mob rule to take hold?
Well maybe, I need a mood for that kind of discussion, but the fall takes roots way before Brezhnev, I'd say from Khruchev who was absolutely ignorant about Marxism-Leninism teaching and theory overall.
Brezhnev actually was a really good guy, hero of war, he was just forced to rule for so long by various forces and one of his mistakes was being too soft with so called "social-democrats'".
Anyway actually Brezhnev era is considered a peak of USSR by many historians.
Many of them. Most of his reforms was a disaster.
It seems like he understood theory in a way a guy who only read wikipedia article would compared to someone who actually reads real books.
His whole Virgin Lands campaign turned out to be a disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Lands_campaign
Altho he was warned multiple times of how bad this idea is.
His retarded reforms of constraining individual property of people, for instance he enforced a constraint on size of houses and cottages people can build because of his misunderstanding of theory and it one of many dumb reforms he passed.
The way he started demonizing Stalin which later was a train all counter-revolution forces hopped on, and still this shit is going on every day on HBO, and in Russian media, they still keep bashing Stalin. But Kruchev was the one who started it.
But to be fair he has some great achievement too one of which being ICBMs on Cuba which scared shit out of US politicians and forced them to actually start resolving issues diplomatically.
But I think he did more bad then good.
I guess Finnish cheese is not anything special, but it is actual cheese, while the quality on dairy products in Russia is so low the demand for real products through Finland is high.
I don't know if they are doing it anymore, or if Finland/Valio has made some special deals with Russia, which is possible
Gorbachev probably killed more Russians and ex-Soviet people then Germany did in WW2.
Because god knows how many people died in 90s.
His reforms lead to empty stores and disaster in economy.
He was weak naive and incompetent.
292million people trusted him and he failed.
He is probably the biggest traitor known to human history.
Thing is It's all the same people pulling strings behind Gorbachev and later Yeltsin and now Putin, it's still same people pulling strings to this day.
Gorbachev could prevent coup d'état at it's birth, he was aware of everything and he consciously decided not to.
There was this guy Aleksandr Yakovlev(a buddy of Gorbachev) Can't remember exactly maybe it was the other guy but nevertheless who forged a plan on accomplishing counter-revolution.
Plan was simple and as we can see it worked. And he is proud of it.
First you discredit Stalin, then you discredit Lenin and then you discredit theory itself.
Since Khruchev already started the first stage it was even simpler to accomplish.
Do you mean Yavlinsky? In the last post I was gonna say that I wished his 500 day plan would have been implemented. He also wrote a book about the financial crisis in 2008 that has a really interesting theory behind it. It's on my to-read list.
And it's not exactly the same people but the same type of people. The original oligarchs are dead or in exile. Khordokovsky has such an interesting story, but I still am skeptical of his angle. I can't help but think his cries for democracy has nefarious motives. Look what he did to people in the 90s.
No not Yavlinsky, that guy was older, I have to look it up. I think Yavlinsky was never even really relevant.
>And it's not exactly the same people but the same type of people
Most powerful of them are still there, others are thrown out (Khorokovsky , Beruzovsky and etc.) by "free market competition".
Yeah Khorokovsky a person who was issuing contract killing left and right now teaching us how to into democracy is hilarious.
Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky (Russian: Григо́рий Алексе́евич Явли́нский; born 10 April 1952) is a Russian economist and politician.
He is best known as the author of the 500 Days Programme, a plan for the transition of the Soviet regime to a free-market economy, and for his leadership of the social-liberal Yabloko party.
I think it's Yavlinsky bro
And forgive my ignorance but who is still a major oligarch that was also a major player in the yeltsin era? Abramovic, Potanin, Aven & fridman are the only ones that come to mind. I don't think chubais has influence anymore in terms of politics
Yavlinsky programme was just a proposal and was refused as wikipedia says. And as i personally can remember he was on TV in early 90s then he just disappeared off media and never really influenced politics.
I looked it up, it was Yakovlev as I first thought.
>Александр Яковлев о Перестройке:
>«Группа истинных, а не мнимых реформаторов разработали (разумеется, устно)
>следующий план: авторитетом Ленина ударить по Сталину, по сталинизму. А затем, в случае успеха, Плехановым и социал-демократией бить по Ленину, либерализмом и «нравственным социализмом» — по революционаризму вообще.
>Начался новый виток разоблачения «культа личности Сталина». Но не эмоциональным выкриком, как это сделал Хрущев, а с четким подтекстом: преступник не только Сталин, но и сама система преступна.»
>Aleksandr Yakovlev about Perestroika:
>"Group of true, not gimmicky reformers developed (only verbally of course) the following plan:
>strike Stalin with an authority of Lenin, strike revolutionism with liberalism and "moral socialism"
>A new round of exposing "Stalins personality cult" has begun. But not with emotional shout as it was done by Khruchev but with strict subtext: not only Stalin is a criminal, but the whole system is criminal"
I misinterpreted his words, he means that they have to find points where Stalin was going not strictly according to Lenins theory and then do the same with Lenin and theory itself.
Yes, Potanin and Fridman and Chubais are still there. Chubais is still on executive roles and is butt buddy of establishment. I mean anyway all oligarchs originated in 90s, there are no Russian oligarchs who made it from ground up.
