The Sunday YouTube Part II: Russia, Perishing
March 2006. Fifteen years after the fall of Communism, Marcel Theroux goes on a personal journey through Putin's Russia for British TV. He discovers a country that's literally dying.
A reader writes: "I can imagine Russians saying that they could find a whole lot of bad things in America if they wanted to and make an anti-American film. The question is could they find a sadistic alcoholic facist police chief (who got promoted) in a chance encounter, when he stopped them from filming a community of outcast non-white American citizens awaiting deportation because they where and embarrassment?"
And indeed, is it really a comfort to Russians to believe that although they are destroying their nation, America also will be destroyed? Does hatred of America supecede love of Russia among Russians?
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KIM - please receive your shipment of FAIL:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/International_Business/Russian_policies_ignite_unprecedented_birth_rate_in_2007/articleshow/2750305.cms
The life expectancy went from 56 to 60,5 in only 2 1/2 years.
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The best description of roosha that I have ever seen to date is from the Leopolis blog:
Russia which is a one-party Eurasian Nigeria with nuclear weapons.
What is really sad about this video - in their extreme poverty, ordinary Russians think that the "managed corruption" which they have allowed is -- democracy.
It's clearly not.
It really tugs at the heart to see 40-year old people who look like they are 70 living on the street.
What's even worse is that they believe they live in a democracy.
It is painful to watch.
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