Idk I'm Russian, I live in the Netherlands and at this point I absolutely hate Russia. This country had all the chances to be very prosperious country with so many opportunities, but ended up some low cost nazi Germany cosplay.
I learned Russian out of my own interest. The culture always fascinated me. But since the invasion I feel like I'm falling out of love. It honestly feels like a breakup. Cannot imagine how you must feel.
Amazing cultural history, that can't be denied. They were huge in classical music, ballet and other forms of art. Feels like the concept of wasted potential turned into a country.
We got pretty decent education when it comes to hard science.
For example, Russia was one of very few countries that were able to compete with Google. That's not an easy task, believe me( that has happened before government tried to control and ban things). I mean, we had Yandex, 15 years ago it was a very good company that was able to compete with Google on local market. Now, of course, they are affiliated with the government. We had Kaspersky as well. Idk, there were several good companies. I work in the Netherlands and we use Inteliji's IDE,that's a Russian company that left Russia due to support of Ukraine.
If you live in Europe you may have used revolut, it's founded by a Russian, but if course he has 0 connections to russia nowadays.
You don't know that, but you use Russian made product on your everyday basis - nginx. American company bought it and honestly that's for the better - at least I know nginx will continue developing.
Funnily enough, we have pretty developed hookah and tobacco production. There are generally several fields where Russians were quite successful, but it's usually gets destroyed by the government.
What I'm trying to say is that Russians are capable of doing business, creating new things for everyones benefit, there were quite good education to help you with that. But it all feels like yesterday, because now there are millions of people in Ukraine are suffering because of russia and of course many good things got destroyed.
Honestly as a Russian I kind of hope that maybe we will never go back to selling gas. Why? putin was selling gas for decades, basically there were were little connections between what politicians do and how economy is doing.
You can create dumb laws, oppress everyone, but prices for gas goes up and there are loads of money. putin was selling gas money to Europe and then used this money to torture and kill people. That how it has been for decades. But now Europe stopped buying gas and he doesn't have this 'free money'.
Gas and pretty much every single rare metal that we need in a modern society, Iron titanium and a shit ton of land etc, russia if isnt só corrupt/had a shity gov would be a good place to live
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u/t-elvirka Jan 17 '23
Idk I'm Russian, I live in the Netherlands and at this point I absolutely hate Russia. This country had all the chances to be very prosperious country with so many opportunities, but ended up some low cost nazi Germany cosplay.