Why is Russia such a cesspool?

[AndreasHG]

11 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

They defeated the Nazis in 1945, and are well on their way to defeating the Nazis in 2024.

LOL. Is defeating the Nazi an invention or an original conception? Really? How much vodka did you already gobble today, Ivan?

 

By the way, without the US aid (the so called Lend-Lease to the Eastern Front) the Soviets would have been crushed by the Nazis.

[Sir Dude]

Russia is a nation that brutalizes its people, to stay in control, and they in turn brutalize everyone they meet third party to oppress.... an awful an horrific society.

[3NUMBAS]

All brain dead from excessive vodka and booze ,the closest thing to neanderthallsa totally useless civilisation totalitarian corruption has always in force since they bumped off their royals..

[3NUMBAS]

On 8/27/2024 at 11:51 PM, thaibeachlovers said:

You are deflecting.

 

Your question was "Can you name a single Russian innovation that is contributing to the well-being of humanity as a whole?" 

 

It was not "Can you name a single Russian innovation that is contributing to the well-being of Russians?"

The kalashnoff rifle 

[lungbing]

On 8/27/2024 at 8:22 PM, maesariang said:

First rocket in space

First man in space, first woman in space preceded by the first dog in space.

 

Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Pushkin,  Tolstoy just off the top of my head.  They've given us enough.

[BarraMarra]

On 8/27/2024 at 10:05 PM, still kicking said:

Just ab few Australian ones.

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2010/06/australian-inventions-that-changed-the-world/ 

Many more to list 

Maybe still kicking but they were not clever enough to Engineer a Covid vaccine.

[3NUMBAS]

russians are like the klingons, a race of warlike apes always looking for trouble.now short of 5 million workers  due to all the dead soldiers and 1 million young workers who have left the country for good .economy is on track to collapse in the near future ,when oil gives way to ecars 

[johng]

10 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

when oil gives way to ecars

So much rubbish but I'll just  comment on this bit,

obviously Russia ( and any one else with an ounce of sense)

will continue using their vast abundant resources of natural gas and oil that they have easy access to and existing infrastructure in place...no need for "ecars"

[johng]

Sputnik 1  the first satellite

 

The only country to land on Venus.

 

Venera 7 (launched Aug. 17, 1970), a lander, made the first successful soft touchdown on another planet and transmitted for 23 minutes. The Venera 8 lander (launched March 27, 1972) measured concentrations of certain long-lived radioactive isotopes that hinted at a rock composition similar to granite or other igneous rocks on Earth. The Venera 9 and 10 landers (launched June 8 and 14, 1975, respectively) sent back the first close-up photographs (in black and white) of the surface of another planet. Venera 11 and 12 (launched Sept. 9 and 14, 1978, respectively) conducted detailed chemical measurements of the Venusian atmosphere on their way to soft landings. The Venera 13 and 14 landers (launched Oct. 30 and Nov. 4, 1981, respectively) analyzed a number of nonradioactive elements in the surface rocks, finding them similar to earthly basalts; the landers also returned colour images of rocky landscapes bathed in yellow-orange sunlight that filtered through the clouds. Venera 15 and 16 (launched June 2 and 7, 1983, respectively) were orbiters equipped with the first high-resolution imaging radar systems flown to another planet; they mapped about a quarter of Venus’s surface, primarily around the north pole.

 

Provided access to the International Space Station before during and after space shuttle disasters   and does to this day.

[AndreasHG]

5 hours ago, johng said:

Sputnik 1  the first satellite

 

The only country to land on Venus.

 

I guess you're being sarcastic. Russia is the only would be "world power" which has never been able, nor under the tzars, not during the Soviet regime, nor under Putin, to give birth to a single company comparable to Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, GM, Ford, IBM, Meta, Alphabet, Tesla, or Toyota, Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi, or Volkswagen, Bosch, Siemens, or BYD, Huawei, Tencent, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Tiktok, Alibaba, ByteDance, etc.

 

Russia is an economic nobody with wannabe great power ambitions. It's a dwarf who wants to punch way beyond its weight (hence the frustration and inferiority complexes).

 

Russia can only compete in a race to who is more violent, who is ready to sacrifice more human flesh on the altar of power.

 
Russia has nothing to offer herself or others except misery, slavery and death.

Maybe also some raw materials, commodities and undifferentiated products. And weapons of mass destruction. That's where Russia excels.  

 

Edited 15 hours ago by AndreasHG

[thaibeachlovers]

On 10/3/2024 at 1:09 AM, BarraMarra said:

Maybe still kicking but they were not clever enough to Engineer a Covid vaccine.

You mean the trial vaccine that didn't stop people getting covid?

[thaibeachlovers]

12 hours ago, AndreasHG said:

Russia can only compete in a race to who is more violent, who is ready to sacrifice more human flesh on the altar of power.

That describes the US more than Russia. You know, the country that has caused more wars than any other country since the Korean war.

[thaibeachlovers]

12 hours ago, AndreasHG said:

Russia is an economic nobody with wannabe great power ambitions. It's a dwarf who wants to punch way beyond its weight (hence the frustration and inferiority complexes).

and yet they are winning in the east. Not bad for a dwarf fighting against the best weapons the west can send the Ukrainians.

[Gweiloman]

I’ve been to Moscow and St. P quite a few times on business. Nice country, good food, great architecture, long history and culture. The people come across as rather gruff but very open and warm hearted once you get to know them. Very passionate people, they live for today and not worry too much about tomorrow. I guess this could be due in part to their history.

 

Oh, did I mention the girls? Lovely creatures, they are…

[Gweiloman]

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

That describes the US more than Russia. You know, the country that has caused more wars than any other country since the Korean war.

You mean the country that has committed more genocide than any other, starting from the indigenous native Indians to present day Palestinians. In between, lots of Iraqis, Afghans, Syrians, Libyans, Yemenis, Vietnamese, Japanese etc etc.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, Gweiloman said:

You mean the country that has committed more genocide than any other, starting from the indigenous native Indians to present day Palestinians. In between, lots of Iraqis, Afghans, Syrians, Libyans, Yemenis, Vietnamese, Japanese etc etc.

Yes, that one.

[BarraMarra]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

You mean the trial vaccine that didn't stop people getting covid?

It stopped it thaibeach doesn't stop you catching it but the UK was the 1st to inoculate the Aussies gave up and bought it in.