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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 00:34 (ссылка)

Religion

According to a Constitution of the Russian Federation — wow, it feels really weird mentioning it: it has been so long since we saw it working last — Russia is a multicultural non-sectarian secular state. However, that county exists only on Constitution pages as a utopia. The real Russia looks more like ISIS in terms of religious bigotry.

I am well aware that even democratic countries can be entangled with religious crap, the need for which sits tight somewhere in the back of our heads. The U.S. alone has hundreds, maybe thousands of cults, from local one-town communities to powerful and influential organizations like Scientology. The itch to explain things in the most simple way (often, the most idiotic one at the same time) comes from the way our brain evolved — that organ that takes only 5% percent of our total body weight consumes around 70% of the total energy our organism produces. Cognition is a very costly process, and our internal systems — more precisely, the limbic system also known as the paleomammalian cortex, which manages our primal functions: eating, moving, breeding, emotional responses, etc. — that system does everything they can to minimize the risk of burning through the available energy supplies (your primal brain knows nothing about Walmart and your ability to buy more food and refill those supplies at any time). By the way, that is the reason you feel so nice when you take a day off and spend it on a couch watching a TV show instead of doing something that needs to be done— as a reward for defeating the neocortex (involved in higher-order brain functions such as cognition, spatial reasoning, and language), your brain gets a free shot of endorphins that enforce that feeling of pleasure.

Okay, enough with the medicine — the bottom line is that people are prone to making fast decisions and thinking less. Always have been, and always will be. That is the major reason why a set of ready-to-use “How to live your life” guides called religions are loved all around the world. But in Russia, that love has definitely grown into something much more ominous.

Let’s have some fun — I’ve made a test for you, answer the following questions with Yes\No statements:

Does the primary religion in your country openly spread a terrifying myth that HIV does not exist, and that AIDS comes from stress, vaccines, and a bad environment — statements that enforce the HIV denial movement and lead to an epidemic?
Is your army equipped with mobile praying stations that can be deployed on a battlefield?

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