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In Reply to: Yeah, Vic, I don't see the world's wealthy flocking to Moscow for that "quality" Russian medical care. ~:) posted by regmac on May 16, 2019 at 14:42:40:
As I was waiting for my mother's ashes, they were running behind, and I had flight to catch... so the guy working there, in the formerly white lab coat (a camo gray now...) offered me to put some ashes in the urn... "What difference does it make whose they are?"I declined... but who's to know what I finally received?
It is a rotten to the core society, at every level. There is nothing human about it. It is impossible for a foreigner to comprehend the degree of corruption, incompetence and just plain evil that exist there.
As far as some stories on how good life there is, on a Russian forum there is long... make it VERY long... thread on where and how to obtain cheese.
People making their own "Rockford" cheese by letting some cheap "kinda cheese" rot on a balcony.
You just can't make that shit up.
As far as their "nice clinics" I was once advised to go to one of them, located at a very famous St. Petersburg medical university. It was a new, private clinic, someone told me. It was called Delor.
So I went. I found the door with the sign on it - but it was locked. There were no hours posted on it, so I waited a few hours and then left.
Weeks later I happened to be inside that university and I discovered the other side of that door... there was nothing behind it. Just a corridor with sick people.
If one needed a perfect example of Potemkin's Villages - here's one.
My mother wanted to be buried next to my brother... so I collected all the documents and went to the cemetery. I walked into the office, which was full of people... it was one of those places where a typical Russian could easily spend a day waiting.
I had no choice, so I simply found a guy doing some work there. I paid him the price of a bottle of cheap vodka to borrow his shovel. I dug a hole in my brother's grave and buried my mother's (???) ashes.
I know where to find her. I don't care if anyone else does.
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Follow Ups
- The burrial, OTOH, is quite affordable :( - Victor Khomenko 05/16/1915:18:33 05/16/19 (27)
- I don't mean to minimize your terrible experiences in the Soviet Union - Chris from Lafayette 16:21:43 05/16/19 (22)
- RE: I don't mean to minimize your terrible experiences in the Soviet Union - Victor Khomenko 18:37:54 05/16/19 (21)
- "The militarization is in full swing" - Chris from Lafayette 20:13:17 05/16/19 (20)
- I don't pay attention to all that Russian garbage - Victor Khomenko 05:42:33 05/17/19 (19)
- "there were periods in the Soviet history where people could travel rather easily" - Chris from Lafayette 08:38:40 05/17/19 (8)
- Your problem is superficial knowledge - Victor Khomenko 10:34:47 05/17/19 (7)
- The simplistic proclamations come directly from US propaganda in the 50's and 60's - Chris from Lafayette 17:45:27 05/17/19 (6)
- As I already said, that was the correct statement - Victor Khomenko 18:32:00 05/17/19 (5)
- Maybe so, but you still haven't supported your assertions [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 10:26:05 05/18/19 (0)
- RE: As I already said, that was the correct statement - Inmate51 19:05:27 05/17/19 (3)
- Is that about the IRIS? nt - Victor Khomenko 06:44:41 05/18/19 (2)
- RE: Is that about the IRIS? nt - Inmate51 07:05:49 05/18/19 (1)
- Yes, saw that one. - Victor Khomenko 07:32:29 05/18/19 (0)
- RE: I don't pay attention to all that Russian garbage - Inmate51 06:42:30 05/17/19 (9)
- And now that we have OUR missiles in Romania. . . - Chris from Lafayette 08:24:06 05/17/19 (8)
- What missiles do we have in Romania? - Dave_K 11:10:04 05/17/19 (7)
- RE: What missiles do we have in Romania? - Chris from Lafayette 18:16:52 05/17/19 (6)
- RE: What missiles do we have in Romania? - Dave_K 05:26:31 05/18/19 (5)
- RE: What missiles do we have in Romania? - Chris from Lafayette 16:13:44 05/20/19 (0)
- Can't reply right now - will reply later tonight [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 11:13:17 05/18/19 (0)
- The Russians have been in violation of INF for many years - Victor Khomenko 06:42:27 05/18/19 (2)
- The only country I know of today which has a significant and aggressive neo-Nazi - Chris from Lafayette 11:08:56 05/18/19 (1)
- RE: The only country I know of today which has a significant and aggressive neo-Nazi - Inmate51 11:49:13 05/18/19 (0)
- RE: The burrial, OTOH, is quite affordable :( - regmac 16:21:23 05/16/19 (3)
- RE: The burrial, OTOH, is quite affordable :( - Aristarchus 22:52:41 05/17/19 (0)
- Solzhenitsyn and despicable systems - Chris from Lafayette 16:35:20 05/16/19 (1)
- Everyone makes his own decisions - Victor Khomenko 05:47:01 05/17/19 (0)