There was a great article on Cracked and later Medium at least 10 years ago that was about all these ways that life in Russia sucks and I can't for the life of me find it anymore.
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It had things like every outdoor grassy space in the cities is covered in dogshit because nobody cares to pick it up anymore. "Are you the one who has stepped in the most dogshit?" was a phrase said to anyone who complained about it.
Ghetto bbq in the woods where they leave their trash everywhere was like a beloved tradition. Homes that look like they haven't been repaired since WW2 are common. Fervent national exceptionalism despite rampant corruption in the cities and horrible poverty everywhere else.
The moment I read it I figured that's where we were headed as a county. What a country looks like when it has everything good it used to own sold out from under it, including its soul. The internet is so polluted and impossible these days and I fear it's lost in the ether now.
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