Russians die ten years younger than westerners do, so something is obviously amiss. Maybe it's all the rampant alcoholism.

Whatever Russia's problems, though, it is less clear to me why the common person should really care about the corruption of Russia's elites. The elite are corrupt no matter where in the world you are - that's WHY they're the elite. Honesty doesn't get you to the top, never has, never will.

Elites in the west simply have different methods of dressing up their corruption.

One thing I can say about Russia is that they do right on degeneracy - they leave it in grey areas of ill-defined law that, in practice, means it's technically legal to be a degenerate so long as you aren't drawing huge amounts of attention to yourself.

You have the freedom to be a faggot - just don't be a faggot about it.

Russians die ten years younger than westerners do, so something is obviously amiss. Maybe it's all the rampant alcoholism.

Whatever Russia's problems, though, it is less clear to me why the common person should really care about the corruption of Russia's elites. The elite are corrupt no matter where in the world you are - that's WHY they're the elite. Honesty doesn't get you to the top, never has, never will.

Elites in the west simply have different methods of dressing up their corruption.

One thing I can say about Russia is that they do right on is on degeneracy - they leave it in grey areas of ill-defined law that, in practice, means it's technically legal to be a degenerate so long as you aren't drawing huge amounts of attention to yourself.

You have the freedom to be a faggot - just don't be a faggot about it.