Posted on 04/06/2019 5:32:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Things aren't looking so strong for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin on his home front.
As Russia callously props up the brutal Marxist Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela, presumably to get repaid on billions in loans from the socialist hellhole, as well as to take a slap at us, Putin is neglecting Russia's economy back home, prompting some scary reports about Russian poverty and a new report that Russians want to flee.
Here's what U.S. News & World Report has about desire to leave:
A NEW HIGH OF one-in-five Russians say that, if they could, they would like to leave their country.
According to a new Gallup poll, in 2018, 20% of Russians wanted to permanently move to another country, an increase from 17% in 2017. The increase may be of concern to the country, which experienced a population decline last year for the first time in a decade.
Here's what Newsweek had to report about Russian poverty:
President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson has reacted with confusion to new official data showing that Russians are increasingly struggling to make ends meet.
Dmitry Peskov, Putin's press secretary, said the Kremlin did not understand the data published by Rosstat — the state statistics agency — on March 31.
When asked about the data, Peskov reportedly sighed and said the government "struggled" to understand the figures, the BBC reported. "Why shoes? Why one third? Where are these figures from?" he asked. The press secretary added he would appreciate an explanation from Rosstat as to the findings.
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The USSR survivors would never complain
Same poll ....22% say they'd like to leave the EU.
16% of Americans overall who said in 2017 and again in 2018 that they would like to permanently move to another country
Sadly, too few Leftists want to leave our nation.
How can we change that?
Democrat: "Its all freakin Trump's fault."
Republican: "But if Trump was colluding with Russia..."
Democrat: "Oh, I see your point. So Trump is trying to import Russians into the US to vote in the 2020 elections for him."
And where do you suppose those Russians want to go? Certainly not to Venezuela. They all want to come here.
Reduced freedoms and economic downturn is real in Russia over last few years but nobody goes anywhere in mass numbers. To bring things into perspective 16% of Americans including 40% women under 30 want to permanently leave US for another country. In practice they aren’t leaving. Emigration is too much a headache for any somehow established person. It is mostly easy for marginals who have no property or marketable skills and these are a minority in most societies.
That’s a form of protest. Nobody goes anywhere. Both US and Russia are netto-recipients of alien migrants instead.
Maybe we can swap our dissidents for theirs
and everybody’s happy again.
‘Rootless cosmopolites’ bashing their own countries won’t make good citizens elsewhere as a rule.
Well if they can make it to Mexico...
This isn’t anything new. People have been trying to get out since Lenin was alive. And, of the people stuck there, many have tried surreptitiously to change the country from within by reintroducing capitalism.
Among Jews, the percentage is likely much higher.
Remember Natan Scharansky & the refuseniks?
Exactly the point I wanted to make. Let us see the survey by age group.
US government policy is to turn Russia back to socialism right now.
possible solution:
Move the 20% of Russians to the US - likely they are well educated;
Move the 16% of Americans to the EU - they fancy the “socialist” countries and the “diversity”;
Move the 22% of the EU to Russia - were they will feel right at home.
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