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Dr Livci's avatar

Where Russia has legit perspective is that it's a country where you can still go off the radar pretty easily due to its enormous geography combined with a very apathetic law enforcement apparatus. White foreigners will have a nightmare getting themselves legalized though, especially if you aren't comfortable with the language yet. Rurik is correct about the mafia like nature of the state but the farther east and away from cities you go the less onerous dealing with them becomes. Dealing with spooks and local racketeers around St Petersburg is level 10 and dealing with them a few hours away from Vladivostok is more like a 3or4. Ive been in Belarus awhile now but when I end up in Russia again its either Ossetia where the racketeers are Ossetian who are vastly preferable to the Armenians, Azaris, jews+FSB who run the racket in the European part of Russia or the far east which is a totally different Russia from what Ive gathered so far. I haven't been to the far east yet myself but the research into it I've done is that if you really want to be left alone and are self sufficient enough to survive there it's a decent place. The omnipresent mafia/spook apparatus is still present but they are more like a petty annoyance than a constant strangle hold. But you actually need to be able to produce your own food, work on your own house etc. Like the food you can buy there is poisonous crap from china thats way overpriced, construction material is expensive AF and delivery of materials is unaffordable etc. You really have to be able to survive on your own skills more or less which most people can't do hence the far east has rapidly depopulated since freedom from Soviet tyranny was achieved by Yelstin, Gaider and Jeffery Sachs.

Not sure I have the inherent intelligence and skills to make it on hard mode like that myself but Im tempted to give it a go because should Mad Max world mercifully come one day the Russian far east seems like it would be a nice place to be. The meme of Russia being some refugee for dissident Whites is not totally false but its doesn't work how Qanon claims. The Qanon claim is that Moscow wants to gather BASED and TRAD antifa warriors under its eagle wings when actually Moscow hates us all, makes it impossible for ethnic Russians stranded in central asian and Baltic shitholes to move home, deports foreign SNO vets to certain imprisonment and torture etc.

The idea that Moscow will greet based and trad White incels with open arms and give them a hot virgin wife who wants to cook, clean and have lots babies is just fanfic. On the other hand if you have the skills and intelligence to navigate the soul crushing Beuracratic nightmare to achieve legal residence and also live mostly by your own labour and know how far from what is considered civilization Russia does have a bit going for it. Such a person could probably survive about anywhere though. None the less making your nest in bum fuck Primorskaya oblast is likely better than Western Europe where the suffocating chokehold of the system is far more imminent.

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Having experienced this in Ukraine decades ago I can only confirm your quote (very well put by the way):"On the one hand, you’ll be able to set up your new business in two months flat once you bribe the right racketeers instead of waiting two years for all the permits and so on.

On the other hand, the same people providing you protection might come to force you to sell your business to them at a steep discount once it becomes profitable.

The executive summary: all in all, so long as you pay your FSB bribes, you should be fine.

Most countries are like this, mind you." And the last sentence is also true!

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