That’a absolutely hilarious. Innovation is the very last thing anyone thinks of when someone mentions Russia.
Most of the time Russia brings to mind drunken depressed people with vodka hooch, sturgeon-egg eating ballet fans, organized crime, gulags, wealthy oligarchs knocking each other off like mafia Dons, and old guys in oversized officer’s caps wearing ridiculous quantities of medals while overseeing grim parades of weapons in Moscow.
Innovation never comes up.
“. Most of the time Russia brings to mind drunken depressed people with vodka hooch, sturgeon-egg eating ballet fans, organized crime, gulags, wealthy oligarchs knocking each other off like mafia Dons, and old guys in oversized officer’s caps wearing ridiculous quantities of medals while overseeing grim parades of weapons in Moscow. “
I guess that would make sense to Cold War Nostalgists and BoomerCons who are still stuck in a 1980’s time warp.
Unfortunately, as Tucker Carlson’s visit showed, in comparison with the West, and especially the United States, it is now the Moscow fast food restaurants that are clean and orderly. It is the Moscow Subway that is safe to use and free of drug addicts and vagrants. It is the Moscow Grocery stores that are affordable and well-stocked. Not to mention the price of gasoline, diesel, electricity and natural gas. As well as an absense of homeless permanently camped in every downtown.
At the end of the 1980’s, just before the fall of Communism, many of the Communist countries were doing large amounts of government borrowing to import large amounts of consumer goods that they were unable to produce for themselves ?
That reminds me of somewhere ... but I just can’t quite place it... 🤔
“That’a absolutely hilarious. Innovation is the very last thing anyone thinks of when someone mentions Russia.”
Except Ukrainian drone operators!!!