Soviet Union better than Yeltsin

[Chris Doss]

Just out of curiosity, how old are these co-workers? In Russia, most people
over 40 either approve of the old system or are nostalgic for it to some
extent. This is much less likely if you're in your 20's. (It's also much
less likely if you're not from Moscow; wages in Moscow are something like 6
times the national average. Moscow is practically a Western city.) I
remember overhearing two middle-aged Russian tourists in Boston saying "They
should have let us come over here, so we would know how good we had it."

Whoops. Should have said "It's also much less lileky if you ARE from
Moscow."

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal