Russia: A Really Shitty Place to Live

"You pretend to be paying us, we pretend to be working." This Soviet-era aphorism illustrates the cause of present-day poverty Russian style. They have forgotten how to work effectively, or have been discouraged from working effectively. According to figures published by the World Bank at the end of last year, 20 percent of the Russian population lives below the poverty line.

Russia’s dire situation is evidenced by the ever-more embarrassing acts willingly performed by the working class. Many poor and middle-class Russians have managed to stay afloat by means of homosexual prostitution, for example. So saturated is this market there, it is tough for many Russian men to afford things once considered normal every-day necessities, like reach-arounds.

Further embarrassing evidence is the sudden barrage of links left on message boards, tag boards, and FFA pages around the world by Russians with affiliate partnerships. The work of spending weeks on weeks manually saturating Internet pages with these links for mortgages, pornography, and loans is rewarded with at best a few pennies. As pathetic as this sounds, it is usually still better than renting out your anus to whoever happens to have a crouton to spare.
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