LucasBryant, I just saw your comments and have to address some issues - if you think I'm a blind cheerleader for Putin, you're mistaken. I've actually been criticized by others on the Dissident Right for not being pro-Putin enough. I just think he's a hell of a lot better than Biden, Trudeau, Macaroon, that racist hypocritical Indian colonizer calling himself PM of Britain, and most other Western "leaders." And he's definitely sane. No saint, but perfectly sane.
Socialist health care sucks wherever it exists. There's no such thing as free health care (Rand Paul, a medical doctor, epically owned some libtard douche who was whining for it), someone always has to pay for it, and that someone is usually the responsible middle class taxpayer paying for the health care of bums, drug addicts, illegal aliens, and other pantloads on society. In Russia, socialist health care is a relic of Soviet communism. Blame Lenin for that.
My Russian-born wife was in high school in the late 1990s. Back then Russian schools still did the mandatory civil defense thing, even after the end of the Soviet Union. All the boys and girls learned how to shoot a Kalashnikov (my wife was good at it and she liked it) and how to assemble and disassemble it. I'm not up to date on what school is like over there now so I'll concede your point that they haven't done that in the past 15 years (that would be 2008).
I have no illusions about Russia. I never called it a paradise. But it's in much better shape than the U.S. of Gay.