regional russians live in poverty state but with regular income that they can easily live on. the post ww2 era has solely been focusing on redeveloping cities and mass construction projects of industries. the small towns are left to be shitholes while the cities get all the gibs. also, in russia where it snows a lot a temperatures drop in the tens of minus degrees celsius, the ice cold weather damages buildings and greenery and makes it look like shit when it all dries up.  we have shit holes in australia too bro. some councils havent even bothered repairing some towns in the last decade.
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