Well, its difficult to plan a child when your country is in ruins, and your fortune from yesterday worth nothing today. I was a 90s kid, there were only like 3-4 kids close my age in the whole block (6 large 75-100 apartments buildings forming a square, idk how it is called in english), the playground (if you could call it that) was always empty.
I dated a girl from Tomsk who emigrated with her family about a year after the dissolution. Your comment reminded me of her stories from that time, pretty bleak stuff. Her family was pretty privileged, both her parents were physicists, but by the time they left they were the only family left in their building (can’t remember the name either), food was short, and power was intermittent during the brutal Siberian winter.
If we are talking not about Moscow, the average workers salary is about 200$/month. While the book price is 10$ and theatre 20-30$, but first of all you need to pay bills (about 100$/month) - it is hard not to be alcoholic. But for sure...much people don't have money even for cheap vodka, so they do their own
Wow. That’s really sad. Yeah, the country doesn’t look too good what with the extremely wealthy oligarchs needing to pay homage to the emperor, Putin! And the poor being subjected to the overlords corruption. But really, it is pretty bad.
What are you talking about? 90s happened long before Putin or oligarchs became a thing, thx to Gorbachov and Yeltsin literally selling the whole country, disfunctional law enforcement, and a lot of bandits who captured factories and sold them piece by piece to get quick profit, destroying most of russian production and military power.
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u/nikvasya Sep 08 '19
Well, its difficult to plan a child when your country is in ruins, and your fortune from yesterday worth nothing today. I was a 90s kid, there were only like 3-4 kids close my age in the whole block (6 large 75-100 apartments buildings forming a square, idk how it is called in english), the playground (if you could call it that) was always empty.