Yes, some of what they have created, is to marvel at. On the other hand, when I was in the Moscow airport, and many other public facilities, a hole in the cement constituted a urinal. Even as recently as 2008, the Russian conscripts used toilets in Georgia, for washing potatoes.
~Yes, some of what they have created, is to marvel at. On the other hand, when I was in the Moscow airport, and many other public facilities, a hole in the cement constituted a urinal. Even as recently as 2008, the Russian conscripts used toilets in Georgia, for washing potatoes.~
In what exactly major airport or public facility have you seen it? I’m not into arguing that Russia is somehow superior in that department, but in the vast majority of places I visited it was no different than in Western Europe. BTW, toilets and potatoes is a story from another war and another place. I first heard it about WWII and Germany. It was probably a BS back when.
For Georgia it is an absolute BS. All of these stories of barbarian Russian behavior there sounds about as real as stories of American troops marauding in Somalia for food and home appliances. It would impress a worker or peasant in North Korea but not someone who used to travel in US and Somalia or Georgia and Russia respectively.
A combat gear on Russian soldier worth more than average Georgian household and his annual wage may easily buy a village or two there.