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What were the biggest improvements in living conditions that the Soviet Union brought compared to the Russian Empire, and how did they affect everyday life?

I’m not gonna waste time hemming and hawing and will fess up: every single Russia’s improvement in living conditions has been a (shoddy) copy of some Western technology or clever invention, from pharmaceuticals to electronic gadgets.

Regardless of how, everything comes with a price tag. The unearned goodies have been accompanied by the importation of European loose and decadent mores that the inhabitants of this Orthodox nation disapproved of and have been mortally terrified of.

In the midst of the holy battle for the revival of the traditional family values that have fallen sideways by the onslaught of the neoliberal economy, The Trojan Horse of wireless communication has brought upon us this powerful influencer, a shady bachelor, founder and CEO of the messenger Telegram app, who following the long standing tradition copied the idea and execution from the West.

Pavel Durov, Russian tech billionaire, has been dating Yulia Vavilova for over two years. Everyone in Russian Dubai, where the couple is based, knows that Yulia is a pros*****e and that Durov pays her to pretend to be his girlfriend. Durov is a nerdy guy despite all the time he spends in the gym and has a narcissistic personality.

Our Orthodox country’s leadership that has been corrupted beyond any hope of redemption by two and a half decades of the windfall from the printing press working in overdrive re-distributed by President Putin among his loyalists with equal careless abundance expected that Durov-Vavilova unmarried couple would at the very least have a child to promote their new divergent interest in the outcome of bedroom activities of their subjects.

The couple didn’t disappoint and announced that they welcomed a KID into their family. The leadership happily breathed a sigh of relief. But there was a catch. There always is, isn’t.

Next day, Yulia demonstrated the new family member to millions of their subscribers.

“But… but… it’s a baby goat!” exclaimed horrified officials instructed by President to pretend that everyone in the Motherland is family-oriented.

“Yes,” Yulia responded. “A baby goat is called a KID.”

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