Most of Russian culture is "borrowed" from other cultures. If you visit Ukraine, Georgia and Kazakhstan, you'll catch all that you fear you might be missing by not visiting the authoritarian hellhole.
Same with me. I had lived 2 months in Ukraine in 2015 when I hitchhiked several thousand kilometres in the Russia. And every driver I talked anything about Ukraine was telling me how the roads are full of bandits now and how I was lucky to make it out of Ukraine alive. And then all these same stories about Russian-speakers being in danger there. I told them that I ws living together with a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, that in the capital 70 % of people speak Russian as their main everyday language, that almost all of my friends in Ukraine speak Russian as their mother tongue, and that none of my friends had never encountered what I was now being told about.
And their reaction: "They only showed you in Ukraine what they wanted you to see". No amount of "hey, I've been walking the streets completely alone, going to various parts of the city. Plus, my girlfriend would have no reason to lie to me about something like this."The reply was always some form of "still, they clearly did not show you everything." And then to my "How did they manage to hide that stuff from me?" they said "I don't know."
Again, zero percent of drivers I talked with said anything deviating from the above. I soon learned to avoid talking about Ukraine, and instead made haste to get the hell out of the Russia, as there was nothing I could do to help those people, and speaking up agitated them in a manner that did not feel very safe as a hitchhiker. Kazakhstan was much better.
Year 2022 got me very disappointed. I live in Finland, but can still do something less than 2% of people here can do: I can speak passable Russian. And I've had to change my view on people from that country because of that.
Just go and ask her: "If that would end the war, should the Russia leave all of Ukraine's territory, including Crimea?"Her answer will be either "No, it should not" or "It's complicated". The "It's complicated" then turns out in further conversation to be a form of "No."
Even those who are "against" the war demand that the Russia must be allowed to have at least some sort of victory. If the Russia returns back where it came from, then these 12 years of war would have been in vain. And the people there do not want for it to have been in vain.
I have met Russian citizens who really are against the war. But those people now also absolutely refuse to speak Russian. No matter how bad their Finnish, or even just English, they will refuse to speak a word of Russian. Because, by their experience, their country is so thoroughly seeped in propaganda, and has been that way for centuries, that they cannot find a way to be against the war and still feel like Russians.
Those Russians who are really against the war are extremely rare, and they would not complain the way this person does. They would be fully aware of why all this is happening.
The person in the video was too young to vote when a vote could have made a change, but she is absolutely in support of the war continuing until the Russia gainst victory of some sort.Before year 2022 I would have been againt this kind of view that I am expressing here, but I have had conversations with so many tens of Russians since then that the case is absolutely clear. There are people who have grown as Russians who are not genocidal, but their number is extremely low. And they consider it insulting calling them Russians. It's something akin to calling someone with their deadname if you do.
The person in the video is in support of genociding Ukrainians. And she is in support of abducting Ukrainian children. Putin has incredibly thoroughly destroyed the nation in his country with the propaganda he started around 2003 or 2004 or so.
She wanted this shit, and she still wants it. She would just not want to have all the bad sides it comes with. She is against how the Russia is invading Ukraine, not against the Russia invading Ukraine. And does not want the Russia to retreat from there, so in the end the how is within limits of acceptable to her as well.
From the context, I'd say yes. I have never heard the word "stik" in Russian before, but in the context it's clear form her intonation that that's one of the tobacco products she is talking about.
I haven't really found a DE that I like more than Unity. Basic Gnome gets close, but the ability to separate switch between programs and their windows is a big thing for me.
But, because of snap packages being annoying, I would really like to migrate away from Ubuntu. Meh.
You probably meant to say "reasonings" not "reasons", right?
In EU they handle this by showing a bunch of prices on the same price tag. You choose the correct line according to where you are located and the price stands there.
Not very difficult.
And, most.importantly, done by all US clothes stores that operate in at least two countries in the EU.
It is, in some places and to some extent.
Until year 2009, the Berlin transportation's rules said "Disturbing use of alcohol is prohibited in public transportation." ...meaning that non-diaturbing use was allowed. The new rule dropped the word "Disturbing", meaning that the procedure is now no longer allowed.
But, the last time I was in Berlin, a few years ago, I was relieved to see that the tradition still lives on. I bet there are cities where it's still outright allowed to this day! But even where it isn't, it's still being done.
Plus, people do drink their Feierabendbier in parks and benches. And often simply first thing after coming home. But Feierabendbier, the concept of drinking a bottle of beer ASAP after the end of your working day, is still alive and kicking indeed!
The Kolomna military factories are old and well-known. It tells a lot about the Russia that a aviation blogger of all people fails to understand that you absolutely don't go flying a drone-sized airplane over Kolomna!
I'd understand this has happened because of the propaganda telling that the war doesn't touch the ordinary people at all. Similarly, for the same reason Telehlam is always full of videos functioning marvellously as battle damage assessment.
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I kind of have tried that twice, failing both times. Firstly, I like paying in cash and it's too much work to change money to Francs and back. Secondly the prices are high enough that both time's I've stocked up before entering Switzerland and made sure that I'm on the other side of the country when it's time to sleep in a paid hotel room.
Yes on Piefed those are called communities.
Let's explain it this way: Microsoft has programmed a web service that is able to receive, view and send emails.
And Google has done the same, from scratch.
Email itself is merely a way different server softwares communicate with each other.
The same goes here. Some people developed a server software for receiving, viewing and sending ActivityPub content and called it Lemmy. Then other people figured it would be a nice project and did the same, from ground up, and called it PieFed.
They are the same thing. They also don't have more content or less content. They have the precisely same content. I am writing this on PieFexd, you are reading my comment in Lemmy. And then there is also Mbin.
It doesn't really work very well as that. It's buggy and it's difficult to really understand. PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin works much better for the purpose intended by OP.
This does mean you'll need to have separate accounts for Mastodon and Forumverse, though. At least for now. I tried using MBin to combine the two, but in practical terms the user experience was lacking, because Mbin is not quick enough in implementing new features that Mastodon gets. Or ones that PieFed and Lemmy get. Especially the images inside Forumverse posts showing as mere links bugged me like hell! And quote toots on Mastodon not working either.
The only surveillance system they might have for this is a police car randomly seeing you fueling up in two places during the same time. There won't be any automatic number plate scanning or anything. Just regular human people using their eyes.
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And then of course, to the other question: I'm from Finland. My PPP increases a lot when I go to Germany. I get a higher amount of Euros as salary, but I can buy much less with my Finnish salary in Finland than I could buy with a lower German salary in Germany. And then when I use my Finnish salary in Germany... Woooo! :)
And when I go to some country in what used to be called "eastern block" in the past, then yes: I can indeed buy a lot more than I can buy in what used to be called "the west" some twenty-thirty years ago. But that's the same in Hungary and in Slovakia, as both countries have been mismanaged in a similar manner. Whether Hungary has Euro or not, doesn't really affect this much at all.
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How many units of money you get for one euro tells nothing about how weak or strong a currency is.When Latvia still had its own currency, the Lat, one euro was actually worth something like 4,20 Lat.
Or measued in English pounds:One Latvian Lat was about 1,20 £. Does that mean that Latvia was/is richer than UK?
Nope. The numbers in a currency are nothing but a number. They can be high or they can be low. Just like 20 degrees Celcius is not richer or poorer than 68 Fahrenheit. It's just a different unit that has different numbers for the same thing.
But then: In 2004 I remember one Euro was about 250 Hungarian Forint. And now it's almost 400. The face value of the numbers doesn't mean anything, but the changes in exchange rate do. Your one million Forint in your bank account are a very different amount of Euros now than they were before Orbán fucked up the country's economy starting in 2012 or 2013 or whenever he began his reign.
At the same time: If the Euro was worth, say 110 Forints, that would actually mean that the Hungarian currency is strong, because it would be twice as strong as it was earlier. But now it's about half as strong as it used to be.
And the answer to the question "why" is indeed Orbán. He has transformed the country into a Russian-style pyramid scheme where the main point of the economy is to provide profit for the leader. And then maybe it will also produce something to the country's population as a side effect. Or maybe not.
@116280023545064493@hear-me.social , you accidentally wrote your comment in a place just like that. See here: https://nord.pub/c/fediverse/p/127183/fediverse-is-there-any-platform-in-fediverse-where-individuals-can-join-groups-just-like-fac
This thing called PieFed or Lemmy is not the same as Mastodon. @fediverse@lemmy.world is not a username, it's actually what you would call a group. You sent that toot of yours into a group called "Fediverse" on a server called "lemmy.world". On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though. But indeed, do click the link above and browse the site that opens.
I linked through my instance, nord.pub, which is mainly meant for people from Nordic countries. If you prefer something else, try piefed.social, piefed.zip, or somesuch :) But of course you can also create an account on nord.pub regardless of where you are from. At least if you know English or some Nordic language. And English you do know!
But indeed: Do browse this thing. Join some communities (that is: groups) that you like. I enjoy PieFed a lot, and for me it has healed that tickle that you're complaining about :)
They made some very clever polls about this in 2023. What they did was first interview a large number of people with four claims such as "homosexuality is an abomination." The only thing the people had to tell was the number of claims they agree with. They could answer "0", "1", "2", "3" or "4". Nothing else.
Then they took a large number of other people, and did the same again, but this time with a fifth question: "I support the war in Ukraine". They did not know about there having been that other poll with one question less. And again, the only kind of answer they could give was a number between zero and five.
By comparing the results of the two polls, they found out that 70 % of the people had chosen the "I support the war in Ukraine", even though nobody answered anything else than one single digit. At the same time, Levada had made a more traditional type of poll, resulting in 80 % saying they support the war. So, for Levada 20 out of 100 people told truthfully that they are against the war, 10 out of 100 lied that they support it, and the remaining 70 out of 100 told truthfully that they support the war.
...and then, I've met those anti-war Russians and asked the question "if that would end the war, should the Russia completely leave all parts of Ukraine, including Crimea", and they basically exclusively say that it should not. So, they are anti-war, but with the condition that the war should end in a Russian victory of at least some sort. If there wouldn't be any victory at all, then the war should not be ended. My experience is that less than one out of twenty "anti-war" Russians think that the Russia should end the war even without gaining any sort of victory.