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Why are so many Russians freezing in their homes? (www.dw.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Russia boasts a massive energy infrastructure, but a recent wave of heating system breakdowns has left many of its citizens scrambling to keep the frost outside. We are still using the communal infrastructure that was made during the Soviet era," said Svetlana Razvorotneva, a Russian lawmaker and member of the committee in charge of urban engineering. "We did not invest in modernization. Instead, we invested in maintaining all that outdated infrastructure."

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Would you be comfortable with the world treating americans as nazis once and if Trump is reelected, or you want us to do the exception and differentiate between assholes and not-assholes?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I will 100 % judge US Americans if Trump gets reelected. If half of your country votes for them, the people are responsible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

if they become a comical evil country that tries to destroy our values and rights, supress sexual minorities and invades their neighbour countries, then yes

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That sounds pretty neat and everything, but that is exactly what the USA does all over the world and has been doing over a century. I'm not puting russia and USA on the same table cause I would prefer 1000 times USA over russia, but having some compasion for people that isn't holding a gun or is freezing because of a war they didn't ask for wouldn't hurt. Puting everything on the same bag is what fascist do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Take out invading neighbors and we already do all of that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It would perhaps be a wake up call for the apathetic majority.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.