These are recent photos from the Russian city Omsk.
Apartment buildings frozen over because a large number of them have no access to natural gas — the pipes are missing and were never there.
Russia is the world’s largest producer of natural gas.
Putin doesn’t care about “saving Russian lives”. Some estimates show 75% of homes in distant regions do not have gas. Why build pipelines for Russians when you can sell gas to Europe, pocket the money and pay an army of policemen to defend you?
@Vonzales: It's wild to me how many people, from randos on the internet to people I have known for years/decades, until lately really believed that Russia and the former Soviet Union were some sort of workers paradise. (I wish I was kidding.) Or they thought Russia was "like the US and Europe" but just Russian.
Many are having a hard time ignoring what they're seeing in real-time, but they're trying, at least to have it both ways somehow.
@Vonzales: Things under Putin have been the way they've been since Stalin and earlier, just even less honest.
Meanwhile Russian state media is hard at work making up stories to help Russians cope with subhuman living conditions.
People of Great Britain, they publish, have it so bad because of their Russophobia, that they eat leftovers after their pets — or starve!
This is literally what this headline says. The British are eating food leftovers after their pets.
The average ruskie in general is so gullible, that will take this “news report” as gospel and even feel proud about “winning”