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Aug 30 4 tweets 1 min read
I agree. There is an issue about "sincerity" that many seem to ignore. It doesn't scale up. You may be quite open in one on one talk on your cuisine at 2 am. But what if ten people are around? You probably gonna be less open and filter your speech more. Sincerity doesn't scale up
Too many people seem to believe that frankness amounts to emotional dumping. Make everyone know how exactly you feel about this or that. In one-on-one dialogue this may work. In a discussion of 10 people - not so much. In a discussion of 100 000 people - it absolutely can't
There's also a fundamental asymmetry here. You see, your fans are not really that much of fans. They have other interests, their life doesn't center around you. Your haters though... They're way more dedicated. Thus 1% of outspoken haters is enough to destroy any discussion
Ergo, if you try to manage a large open discussion, I strongly advice industrial scale blocking. Yes, there is a collateral damage: many hate followers probably gonna dump their anger on their misfortunate families/therapists. But there's nothing you can really do about that

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Sep 1
You see, that's very subjective. How would you assess e.g. the relative rank of Armenians vs Azerbaijanis?

Liberal intelligentsia: Armenians = ancient Christian people, Azerbaijanis = Turkic nomads. Ergo Armenians >>> Azerbaijanis

Working class: Armenians = Azerbaijanis = apes
I would say that upper classes are more culturalist and being Christian/ancient civilisation plays a big role for them. Working classes' perspective tends to be purely anthropological. They don't care about "ancient culture", "Christian" crap, they just see you as an ape
That's why Karabakh war was a huge thing for intelligentsia but not for masses. Intelligentsia saw it as a conflict of Muslim barbarians vs Christian civilisation and called for a crusade. Masses didn't give a damn though. Neither Armenians and Azeri were seen as fully human
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Gorbachov's funerals dilemma. Gorbachov allegedly destroyed the USSR. Still, he is an ex-Tsar which is super important in Russian quasi-monarchy. Disrespecting him would undermine the awe before the institution of Tsar's power. So Putin's private farewells were still broadcasted
Many things about Gorbachov would be counterintuitive for the American public. First, few things undermined his reputation in Russia more than his relationship with his wife. They were very close, he took her everywhere and she tried to play a figure of her own. People hated that Image
In America being a "good family man" is usually considered a prerequisite for the high political career. You must be one, or at least persuade enough voters that you are. So Americans casually assume Russian politics work just like this. But they don't Image
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Aug 31
Not quite. In Stalin's era engineers indeed could enjoy royal lifestyle compared with working masses. You could realistically hope to get Your 👏 own  👏 apartment  👏 one day  👏, while others would live in barracks forever. Absolute kings
Since 1960s however system of incentives gradually changed. First, engineers were simply overproduced. Second, Soviet village with its seemingly infinite human resources was dying out. Third, Soviet government got wary of too many engineering grads. Are they even proletarian?
By the 1970s it was absolutely normal for industrial workers to earn more than engineers, way more. Hence jokes "The more you study, the less you earn". Sounds strange, but in the late USSR it was very real. Tons of engineers took workers' jobs to earn more cash
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Aug 31
Yes, of course. Actually this year fates of Russian material producers diverged. Titanium producers are doing fine, as they're irreplaceable and thus pulled out of sanctions lists. Russian ferrous metals producers are replaceable -> sanctioned -> being obliterated Image
If you look at the recent ЦСР report on the Russian narrowly specialised industrial cities (monotowns), you see that maximum risk category mostly consists of two types:

1) Machinery dependent (Naberezhnye Chelny, Tolyatti)
2) Ferrous metals dependent (Cherepovets, Magnotogorsk) Image
For anyone interested in the Russian regional economy, I strongly recommend digging in into the Central Bank or CSR (ЦСР) reports. They're very informative
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Aug 31
Actually the Russian metallurgy has been doing ok in post-Soviet period. Production of ferrous metals (left graph) bounced back after the initial contraction of the late 1980s-1990s. Production of non-ferrous metals (right graph) even exceeded Soviet figures in the Putin's era ImageImage
It is the machinery that never recovered after the post-Soviet collapse. I will give you just four examples: production of tractors, сombine harvester, bulldozers, excavators. You can find many, many more. Soviet machinery pretty much died and never recovered ImageImageImageImage
I believe this graph: production of friction bearings may illustrate the history of Soviet/Russian machinery well. As you see, it quickly collapsed in the 1990s and then continued to contract through the Putin's era. Russian metallurgy recovered, but machinery never did Image
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So, here goes the first portion of #Rheinmetall memes. I will put here some of those I liked, mentioning the authors

Author @didgeroodi Image
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