Congrats India. Welcome to 1969.***covered in news thread***
India successfully lands vessel on moon a week after the Russians lost control of their craft and which was subsequently obliterated.
Its pretty amazing that russian bigwigs let themselves get pocked off like this and none of them try to off putin first.
Russia's 99% a shithole. I never get why the population in these autocracies put up with it, especially when they have access to the outside world.
92nd for life expectancy.
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Part of the problem is that, except for extremely brief and incompetent quasi-Democratic experiments under Alexander Karensky for a few months in 1917 and Boris Yeltsin in the 1990’s, iron-fisted one-man absolute autocratic rule is all Russia has ever known throughout its entire 700+ history.
Even after multiple revolutions in the past century or so, it’s so baked into their culture that they always turn back to it in some slightly mutated form in no time at all. Part of the reason why their neighbours are all so desperate to get out of Moscow’s orbit.