>>3186395Naaah. That's just propaganda from both sides to encourage people at home or to rattle people abroad.
We're not competing in every sector. We're waging proxy wars and there might be some sort of arms race.
>>3186420Well, there are lots of new things. It's not THAT depressing.
For ex.: I've been to Kazan like 12 years ago or so and it was a typical shitty dirty city with directions instead of roads.
And now it looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGibw8E26w8 (the video is in Russian). I'm inclined to visit it once more.
Also there's this American (?) couple traveling across the World. They went Trans-Siberian (crazy people). You might wan't to check out their vlogs. Here's their first vid in Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10jo3yP-quQI have no idea how Eastern regions live. I've never been there, but I'm pretty sure that it's worse. Dude from Yakutsk might know something.
