>That is a difficult question. Russian people are very good and friendly, but we are all very different. The best part of Russian people were immigrated to the US, UK, Europe... I think we lost them.
>From another side - we have terrible Mafia in the world (more powerful and organized).
>Yes, in the USSR was the best educational system (I am a product of this system). But now it has been destroyed. We have weak education system - the ideals for new generation are the Mafia member for boys and expansive prostitute for girls. All is very sadly and bad...
>We have another huge problem - alcohol and now drag; our people want to go out from our reality...
>I don't think that it all connected with
Marx's socialist system, rather with some group of people who has destructive thinks for making huge money in Russia.
>Anyway, we can't see perspectives in the future for our country, so we have a huge immigration from my country, but now all west countries are closed they broads for Russian people and we are like animals in the sell - no hope, no future, no escape. I am very sorry about it...
Feels like home.
The trouble with the fall of the socialist system is that the cause of its fall was exactly what Lenin predicted: "if we fall, we will fall because of the bums in our ranks". He himself fell because of a bum who rose to power right under his nose.
The whole trouble is that since the power in most of the socialist countries came from revolution, i.e. from a forced takeover and break with the previous legal system, they never felt too much urge to enforce their own laws. Even Tito once said "the judges shouldn't stick to the law each time like a drunk to the fence". They were speaking about democracy, and even grew generations who believed in it, but in the high ranks there was always lot of voluntarism, which in these terms meant the selective application of the laws.
With the downfall of this system, the "rats from the basement took the power" (song by Riblja Chorba - "fish stew"). Same thing happened in all ex-Yugoslav countries, Russia, and probably Belarus, Ukraine and other ex-USSR countries, resulting in more or less wars, and rise of the crime to positions of power. It was said that each state has its mafia, only in Serbia mafia has its state.
I'm sorry I wasn't at home when Milosevic fell. I only heard an incredible story about 10000 people walking the main street in my hometown, all smiling. But that was more than a year ago - meanwhile, the new government is trying to rebuild the country, lots of stuff is better, but people are still poor, and the previous system's legacy is like a stone hanging on everybody's neck. They are still happy with about $80 a month in the average.
