SUFFERING IS THE ESSENCE OF RUSSIA

We did not write this. However, this description of Russia is quite perceptive:

The art of suffering, of experiencing and inflicting it, has been developing for centuries and brought to perfection in this land of intrigue, murder, and slavery, of brutal revolutions followed by merciless supressions, of soul-less apparatchiks trapped in a self-devouring system, of powerless men, battered women and endlessly crying children, ragged cats, three-legged dogs and collective farm cows covered in a thick layer of dirt, all plodding about under high-voltage power lines between fallen over reinfoced concrete fences in the shadow of smokestacks.

Here you will find the purest undiluted and unadulterated misery of the true connoisseur grade.

You will see dozens, hunderds or even thousands of sad, grumpy, unwashed faces. In fact, a whole population of sick malnourished chain-smoking alcoholics will be there for your pleasure of contemplating the vanity of human existence.

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