JustVik

It’s easy to spot from the flag that these are rigged protests by someone like the CIA. The flag was specially chosen not to be serious, and to be popular among not very intelligent young people who have a lot of time to watch a lot of anime.

If “Life being worse builds character” then most billionaires don’t have it built.

I’ve met quite a few people who say that although there were disadvantages, on average it was ok to live in Soviet Union after the 60s. If you asked around in Russia, there would even be those who praised it. Because there were some advantages like not bad free education and free medicine, for example. In some good times, you could even get a free apartment or a piece of land. And now, under capitalism, it is very difficult to earn an apartment in the most developed cities.

On this day in my country, June 1, often they say on TV that this is International Children’s Day or something similar. In most families in our country, it seems to me that on this day childrens do not receive any special gifts, but sometimes just go with their parents to a cafe or a park or a cinema or something similar to a museum. Although without special gifts, it’s still a good pastime.

It doesn’t have any more propaganda than any of the big Western media.

It’s unusual, but it was a little-known Russian movie from which I didn’t expect much, but in the end I liked it. It was Lord of the Wind (2023). Although I usually don’t like modern movies lately. It is about Fyodor Konyukhov is a Russian survivalist, voyager, aerial and marine explorer and his round-the-world balloon flight. Unfortunately, I don’t know if it is available in English.