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libgen.gs
Либген, кстати, помер (уже недели 2 как
не отвечает ни в одном из привычных зеркал),
но живет в виде зомби вот тут:
https://libgen.gs/
из всех ссылок на скачивание там работает только ссылка
на Anna's Archive, так что можно прямо туда и ходить;
но либген.гс немного удобнее.

Вот, кстати
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
"the largest truly open library in human history"

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Re: Twelve reasons why Russia sucks

_rossia_govno_
2025-07-25 00:26 (ссылка)

Most benches near the apartment entrances are broken. Doors are covered with ads. Light bulbs are broken or stolen. Patches of different paint — signs of feeble repair attempts — cover dirty walls that lose their plaster skin.

Dog shit covers every yard and most of the playgrounds. Dog owners and their own kids cannot walk more than 30 steps without stepping into another pile, but no one cares, and (almost) no one cleans after their dogs.

Why? To quote a well-known Russian designer Artemy Lebedev, we all have our “comfort zones”, but if civilized people’s comfort zone includes the streets they walk, the parks they visit, the cities they live in, and the countries they inhabit, a comfort zone of a Russian ends at his doorsteps. Everything outside my apartment does not belong to me, hence I don’t give a shit about it.

And for those who dare to upset the established order of not caring, we have a perfect and constantly used reply: “Tebe bolshe vseh nado?”, which means “are you the one who cares the most?” Indeed, are you the one who stepped more than anyone into dog shit? We all do, buddy, shut up. We all live in these ugly homes, who gave you the right to be offended by this sight more than we are? Bite the bullet and keep your mouth shut, just like we do. And believe it or not, that works as a charm — most anyone instantly chills and backs out.

You don’t want to be the one who cares a little bit more than everyone around you does. And even if you do, “Odin v pole ne voin” — “One man, no man”.

The high noon of this herd morale is pictured in the critically acclaimed 2014 movie “The Fool” by Alexander Bykov: a regular service guy finds out that the house with 860 people inside is about to collapse because of a giant crack in the wall. Rushing into the restaurant, where the mayor happens to celebrate her birthday, he alerts everyone about the upcoming tragedy, which is about to happen because of the tragic negligence, bureaucracy, and the fact that most of the city budget has been systematically stolen by the government pen-pushers throughout years. The good civil servants quickly come to the understanding that they won’t be able to cover this story up, and they are much more comfortable with burying everyone alive under the ruins and blaming a couple of fall guys in the office, rather than evacuate that “living trash”. Desperate, the movie antagonist runs back to the falling building and starts banging into doors, shouting about the emergency, and rushing everyone to get outside… where he eventually gets killed by the mob, angry at the guy who has forced them to leave their cozy wormholes. A fiction movie, yes, but for everyone who’s lived here long enough, it looks more like a terrifying prophecy, a dark omen of what is to come, a reminder for those who want to change the way things work here.

“Chelovek cheloveky volk” — “We are wolves to each other”

The degree to which Russians don’t give a shit about the people around is frightening. A few years ago the Russian media was covering a story about a university teacher that had a heart attack and collapsed on a street in Saint-Petersburg. He lay down covered with snow for two hours and eventually died. No one approached him. “Huh, probably another alcoholic had too much for today, that’s not my business”. This specific case took place several years ago, but such tragic events happen every week.

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