Novosibirsk, Russia flooding in -13C weather, due to broken infrastructure

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1. I guess they had no political opinion 

2. Time to bring out ice skates

3. Wow that video Russia made accurately predicted the winter of 2023/2024 only it was about Russia and not Ukraine all along.

4. Special infrastructure operation.

5. Gooooood, excellent (said in the voice of Mr Burns)…more please👍

6. Boy. This is just awful. Thoughts and prayers?

7. The coldest city on Earth, deep in the permafrost. This will be fun to fix

8. Staggering incompetence. And well deserved.

9. God don’t like ugly !

   🇺🇦🇺🇦✊

10. That city looks grim af.

11. Shithole country

12. Sometimes a country can be pretty good overall, but have a few weak spots here and there. For instance, the US has many positives, but gun violence and the cost of healthcare stand out as negatives.

    Now a person could get carried away criticizing Russia, there definitely are major issues mostly related to corruption and theft. This seems to occur throughout Russian society on a small and large scale.

    Oligarchs steal tax money that should have been used to support infrastructure, education and healthcare. A lowly supply sergeant in the army might sell thousands of pairs of boots, uniforms, equipment, protective vests, etc…–whatever valuable supplies that comes his way.

    Sometimes the grift isn’t so tangible, such as a company being paid to maintain Russian military vehicles. More often than not, this money is pocketed and little to no maintenance is actually done. Another version is using government money to purchase thousands of inferior Chinese tires instead of Military-Grade tires.

    The lack of accountability became blatantly obvious during the invasion of Ukraine. Vehicles breaking down for no other reason than a lack of maintenance or cheap tires. How about the lack of matching boots, socks, protective vests, ammunition, clothing, field rations–and so many, many other examples of grift that left Russian soldiers ill-equipped to conduct military operations.

    The question might arise as to how deep does this Culture of Grift goes? Just how deep is the rot? Are Russian nuclear weapons receiving proper maintenance? How about the nuclear delivery vehicles (missiles and airplanes)? The grift affects Russian infrastructure too. Just like substituting cheap Chinese tires, construction companies receive billions of Rubles to maintain the roads and bridges around the larger cities. The work they did was cosmetic, at best. Maybe using 15% of the money received to cheaply slather asphalt over potholes and cracks in the roads. Major issues still exist, but for a few days, the streets around Moscow and Peterburg ***looked*** awesome.

    What we’re seeing now in the major cities is a society collapsing. You can ask: *”Just how much cosmetic repairs can you get away with before everything falls apart?”* Well, we can assume that this grift has been going on since the last days of the Soviet Union. Add to this lack of maintenance the fact that much of the Russian labor force is fighting in Ukraine, or was fighting before they were killed. The people who might have identified a problem with a steam pipe and fixed it before a catastrophe occurred are gone: either suffering in the trenches or no longer alive.

    Are we seeing the maximum amount of collapse yet? Sadly, predictably, no. With Western sanctions added to the mix, commercial flights in Russia are a gamble with ever-decreasing odds of success. What is coming next for the further collapse of Russia? Stay tuned, it won’t be pretty. Let’s hope the main gangsters in the Kremlin don’t panic and start a nuclear war. Even odds that Russia will end-up nuking their own territory.

13. Haha haha yeah who says karma 😄 is dead lol

14. This reminds me this story:

    “My husband and I once spent eighteen months in a village 300 kilometers from Moscow, in the Kaluga province, which is relatively well supplied. The village population was noisy and querulous, they would pick up their knives at the slightest provocation. Every evening we would hear shouts – somebody’s chicken was stolen, somebody’s dog poisoned, someone’s wife seduced, somebody had been beaten and was now chasing his attackers with an axe. These were energetic, proud people.

    The village water system was only connected to a few lucky houses, but the majority of villagers had to carry their water in buckets from the street fountains. One cold, gray November day the fountains suddenly dried up. The nearest well was in the ravine whose slopes were slippery at this time of year. The usually boisterous and quarrelsome villagers, always ready to start a fight, trudged meekly into the ravine with their buckets.

    When I asked them how long the drought would last, they said: ‘Until spring.’ Assuming that the villagers knew best, we started packing our things to leave, but at the last moment I called the emergency maintenance service to check on the situation. My call was news to them. None of the villagers had informed them of the problem, even though there was a telephone in almost every house. The next day a team of workers arrived, repaired the water tower and restored the water supply. If it were not for my call, the villagers would have waited for water until spring.

    Something similar happened with the power supply. The outdated electricity network often went down, leaving the village immersed in darkness. The thing to do was to call the emergency service, but the villagers never would. While I was there, I played the role of a miracle-worker. If the light went out during the night, the villagers had to stay in the dark until I woke up closer to midday. Learned helplessness had engulfed the entire village.”

    Taken from [here](https://granta.com/russia-verge-nervous-breakdown/)

15. They have been summoning “General Frost” to European countries and Ukraine, instead both of the generals Frost and Flood decided not to work with terrorists. Oh well.

16. District heating works well but you need a country with good infrastructure and one that can properly organise to maintain it. This hasn’t happened in Russia for a long time.

17. I prefer seeing this on Mordor aka moscow quintuple the amount.

18. That is quite the water birsk…

19. this is what winter in EU should have looked like this year according to pro-RU

20. Third largest city in Russia.