Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends

Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by rectang on Saturday March 05, 2022 @02:16PM (#30570875)

I would expect there to be a divide between Russians who were old enough to experience the full effect of the chaos and privation following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, and those who came of age later.

In the US, where I live, we also have tension between the generations, but it has more to do with changing demographics. There's nothing comparable to what Russians experienced when the Soviet Union fell.

Tensions between generations are probably the rule rather than the exception, at least over the last few hundred years of rapid change.

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by 5e92cb50239222b on Saturday March 05, 2022 @02:19PM (#30570910)

Yeah, that's exactly what Putin built his whole career out of. It's mostly a myth (because the country was helped out of its troubles by high oil prices), and it's especially ironic now that the same person is pushing the country back into the 90s at full speed.

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