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I'm not disputing that and those are very good things to point out, but i'm saying put it into historical perspective. Russians are objectively better off today than they were 25 years ago, and looking at the trajectory of the developing alternative global economic structures and their economic ties to a rising China, it is likely they will be better off in 5-10 years than they are today. Are Germans today better off than they were 25 years ago? I'm not so sure about that. Will they be better off in 5-10 years than they are today? Very probably not.
Of course that does not mean that all these various social and economic problems that are caused by capitalism in Russia will disappear. In the long term those can only be fixed by a return to socialism.
As a communist, obviously, i also gravitate more towards the DPRK's socialist economic organization than Russia's capitalism. I don't know that i would necessarily be materially better off there, and i do think living in Russia has some advantages over the DPRK in terms of access to goods and amenities that we as westerners are used to, but socially it would be nice to know that you have a comprehensive social safety net and are not being exploited by capitalist oligarchs every time you go to work. It would be nice to know that you are working for a common prosperity that everyone can enjoy.
What i am trying to say is that Russia, while deeply flawed, is clearly part of the now more dynamic and developing part of the world which is centered around Asia, while most of the EU is already in a period of decline and stagnation that i do not see stopping.