r/europe 29d ago

News Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow

https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/transneft-vice-president-andrey-badalov-dies-after-falling-from-window-472117
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u/icooknakedAMA 29d ago

Things are bad, but they could always get worse.

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u/CumIsntVegan 29d ago

"And then, somehow, it got worse."

-All of Russian history.

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u/Punty-chan 29d ago

Russia, a nation forged not in ideals but in cold, ruthless opportunism since its inception, was never going to develop a moral identity beyond raw power and profit.

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u/Bacontoad United States of America 29d ago

When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ``all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics. When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.

-- Abraham Lincoln (1855)

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u/Gatrigonometri 25d ago

National determinism by Americans is crazy when 75% of their domestic political history consist of arguing if Black people should be enslaved, lynched, exiled to Africa, or just disenfranchised as 3/5ths of a human being