frankly on Big Serge Thought

Be interesting to know how much of the infrastructure is still around from those days. Grew up in the Mahoning valley in Ohio. They sent it all to China for scrap. All that's left are miles and miles of concrete slabs. The site of innumerable blast furnaces, etc..., The Russian people have long dealt with neighbors that coveted their territory and a certain lack of the luxuries/needs that have turned North Americans into fat, entitled liabilities whose governments have connived to cull.