Whenever the topic turns to Ukraine vs Russia, I have noticed some people coming out of woodwork to assert that Russia is corrupted country. Now I will give you that Putin is a dictator as he has been a president for a long ass time and probably ordering his subordinates to kill his political dissidents but is there a lockdown and arrest of citizens? I want to know actually as the propaganda's everywhere that exaggerates a lot of things.
I want to also ask hypothetical question, if countries like Russia, China, Canada and Britain offered people temporary asylum and actually made effort to accommodate them for not understanding their own language, what country normies will choose, I wonder?
And as for me, you probably know what I will choose.
There certainly is truth to the statement "all countries are corrupt" but the US in particular is less centralized, and the corruption you face in Russia is routine in that you have to bribe police/bureaucrats to get anything done. As such, if you are poor in these countries it is very hard to get ahead in any way as you can't afford the bribes necessary. Even if you pay them you can get taken over against your will, as Pavel found out with VK.