#ReadingRussia Today un giornale russo riporta che “l’ansia dei russi è aumentata a causa dell’incertezza, della mancanza di denaro, della crisi economica e del calo della produzione”. Un altro scrive di un aumento di “depressione, ansia e disturbi da stress” in Russia. Steve Rosenberg per BBC News

Isn’t it nice that we cannot read Russia Today but the BBC can handpick articles they think we ought to hear.

Russians would eat grass. If they knew that “glorious” Russia is waging some imperialistic war thousands of kilometers from their home. Vodka is for anxiety and depression.

It is extremely annoying to hear Russians complaining about the economic anxiety they are inflicting on themselves by persisting in a costly invasion. The only legitimate reason they should have for depression is the culpability of continuing slaughtering their neighbours.

And yet Putin’s army has an endless stream of volunteers to perpetuate the killings.

Is that “anxiety” why Russia no longer reports births and deaths?

Because I remember when the DDR (Eastern Germany) stopped reporting suicides, and it was not because there were too few.

This is how Russia has always worked. Authoritarian country that doesn’t care about its people and locks people up if you stand up. People lose hope, get depressed, numb themselves with alcohol, or lash at anyone weaker either in personal life, or by cheering when the state does it to other countries

Someone is about to fall out of a window…

Not enough to go after their regime for sending all their children to the meet grinder in a pointless war none of them wanted I guess.

For a country that has been at war for almost four years, this is a rather moderate level of concern.

Has it ever been different (for most people) in Mother Russia?