Listen now (86 min) | This ep is inspired by Evgenia’s recent essay on her youth and Russia’s deeply colonized culture. But we get into all sorts of related topics — like what else is out there and what’s worth living for, other than this cursed consumerism and materialism that has surrounded us our whole lives.
You know, all the small and medium factories closed after ussr fall, making small towns existence very hard in capitalist hellscape. Villages all got dicked over when collective farming property was privatized/or deliberately fucked over by the government until they wen bankrupt, their means of production sold to some dickhead. There is very obvious hatred of moscow in rural places, they earn shit, work hard, their government services were collapsed deliberately.
Large scale wise most companies centralized their profits in moscow as well, despite operating in like siberia (oil), or north (minerals). So average moscow salary is like 700 bucks, in small town 200, in rural areas maybe 100.
move the suffering into rural communities and outskirts, exploit immigrant labor. Now you get shining cities on a hill and racism :sadness-abysmal:
What do you mean?
You know, all the small and medium factories closed after ussr fall, making small towns existence very hard in capitalist hellscape. Villages all got dicked over when collective farming property was privatized/or deliberately fucked over by the government until they wen bankrupt, their means of production sold to some dickhead. There is very obvious hatred of moscow in rural places, they earn shit, work hard, their government services were collapsed deliberately.
Large scale wise most companies centralized their profits in moscow as well, despite operating in like siberia (oil), or north (minerals). So average moscow salary is like 700 bucks, in small town 200, in rural areas maybe 100.