Life expectancy for males in Russia is 67 years, for females 77. About half the dead are cremated, the rest buried in coffins. tl;dr: life in Russia sucks, avoid if possible.

Answer (1 of 3): I think Pavel Burov's answer is correct, but incomplete. He is correct in terms of blue vs white collar, but there are at least two other divides. Except near the end of the Soviet Union, Stalin's decree that farmers and their families had to have permission to leave the collec...

Answer (1 of 47): I have read the rest of the answers and I feel that they either show a rosy idyllic picture focusing only on the positive sides or too negative following the stereotypes. Here are some of the pluses and minuses of living in Russia and I will try to specify when there is a major ...

Answer (1 of 5): I believe that Russia is a modern, growing and distinctive country. According to the latest presidential elections, the people of Russia fully support the policy of leadership. It is only natural that not everything goes smoothly. There are still limitations in the decisions of m...

Answer (1 of 6): In the Soviet Union, most consumer items had a very limited variety, from toilet paper to clothes to furniture. So if you walked into anyone’s apartment, often you would see the same items you had in yours, and people wore a lot of …

It is easy to list similarities between modern Russia and the USSR, but there are also substantial differences. Similarities: autocratic totalitarian country; lack of basic freedoms; strong censorhip; Moscow is the capital city; Cremlin is the symbol of power; Elites are Russian; military budget ad ambitions bigger than possibilities; disrespect of individual

Jan 26, 2022 · Answer (1 of 4): It really depends on your social level. For a regular person life in the USSR was generally good. Government was in charge of everything and I mean EVERYTHING. There was no unemployment, there was always a roof over your head, free education, free healthcare and a minimum wage th...

Answer (1 of 13): The last 10 years of the USSR is from 1980 to 1990. When considering the USSR it is necessary to know who rules and what was in reality. Since 1978, the head of the KGB, Andropov, has already fully begun to create his plans for the destruction of the USSR. Some believe that he a...

Answer (1 of 3): It was a difficult time (but not as hard as in the 1990s). Strong changes have taken place over these 10 years. Brezhnev’s death in 1982 (the people respected him very much), who proclaimed the advent of the era of “developed …