Where RIA uses anywheres vs somewheres arguments to explain how ordinary hardworking Russians apparently appreciated the heating and free meals of Gulag camps in ways that soft cosmopolitan intellectuals could never understand
"For elites the Gulag may have been an uncomfortable contrast to Hotel Astoria and Metropol, but for 100 000s of normal people, as paradox as it sounds, it was a source of upward mobility"
We've hit peak populism.
The Gulag system as a solution to dealing with labour shortages while avoiding migration
"The experience of our Chinese friends could be useful..."
ria.ru/amp/20210523/g…
The author has clearly not visited rural communities in the EU since 1991
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