As trivial as it is, McDonalds closing down in Russia is very symbolic. When the first restaurant opened in Moscow in 1990, my parents joined a line of 30,000 people to get in. For most Russians it was the first glimpse of what eating out could be like over the Iron Curtain.
Ilya Yashin sentenced to over 8 years for condemning the Russian army in Bucha
Show me a morally sound Russian man who is:
a) not in prison/on trial
b) hasnβt fled the country
c) still alive
This is peak irony. The majority of Soviet and Russian kids were raised in 100% female households (single mother / mother + grandmother) due to factors like high divorce rate/alcohol abuse/high male mortality rate. Which thanks to Putinβs war is growing higher and higher
25 years after the fall of USSR, I started @sovietvisuals to give people a glimpse behind the Iron Curtain - an isolated country shut out from the rest of the world with one centralized source of news called Pravda (βTruthβ), total censorshipπ§΅
On the day of her solo space flight in 1963, Soviet cosmonaut and first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova told her mother that she was attending a skydiving competition. Her mother discovered where she actually was from a radio announcement later that day.
The songs are in Hindi, Uzbek Santa is hanging out with a delirious teletubby and some crystal bears, and everyone is happy. If your party does not look like this party in Samarkand, donβt even bother inviting me
