1y ago

Why are so many Russians freezing in their homes?

www.dw.com /en/why-are-so-many-russians-freezing-in-their-homes/a-68025856

Russia boasts a massive energy infrastructure, but a recent wave of heating system breakdowns has left many of its citizens scrambling to keep the frost outside. We are still using the communal infrastructure that was made during the Soviet era," said Svetlana Razvorotneva, a Russian lawmaker and member of the committee in charge of urban engineering. "We did not invest in modernization. Instead, we invested in maintaining all that outdated infrastructure."

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Is Russia Texas?
- Oil barons
  Guns
  Silly hats
  Invading neighbors
  Racism
  You might be onto something.
  
  anti-LGBT
  anti-"woke"
  
  Guns?
  the rest of the points suit me 😁
- No, but Texas might be Russia next year
  
  Don’t be too hasty, I hear daddy Putin is puttin together a conservative bigot fascist bootlicker utopia that totally won’t be end up being closer to a ^meat ^grinder ^waiting ^line
- Tex wishes it were the other way around, the fucking nonces
The governor also accused the plant's owners of being unreachable during the current crisis, pointing out that two of them lived abroad. The issue apparently drew the attention of Russian President Vladimir Putin — he ordered Vorobyov to nationalize the heating facility.
Imagine living in a different time zone and not picking up a call in the middle of the night, only to find out the next day that your government just joinked your entire plant because they messed up the heating infrastructure and needed someone else to blame.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
This week, at least 16 people suffered burns in the city of Nizhny Novgorod when a large-bore heating pipe exploded, spouting boiling water into the street.
Experts warned that the heating network in Russiais poorly maintained and outdated — especially in the areas that have massively increased their population density since the Soviet times.
Due to restrictions on access to the ammunition factory, civilian officials were unable to prepare the boiler room for winter or monitor issues in real-time, according to the outlet.
While some heating-related incidents happen every winter in Russia, this season has seen successive heating failures in multiple cities, from Novosibirsk in Siberia to Moscow and St. Petersburg to the western exclave of Kaliningrad.
Recently, the Kremlin has started taking a more direct role in managing the heating grid, and federal authorities signaled they would be freeing up more funds.
"We are still using the communal infrastructure that was made during the Soviet era," said Svetlana Razvorotneva, a Russian lawmaker and member of the committee in charge of urban engineering.
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It's been terrifyingly cold this year in parts of Canada. I imagine it's been a similar phenomenon in Russia?
let them freeze.
- Most Russian people have committed no crime, and many do not support what their leader has done. We should not condem people for the country they were born in.
  
  most russians do not support their leader and country? Have you been high for the last 2 years or what?
  
  With my whole chest: FUCK. THE. RUSSIAN. PEOPLE.
  Those vile scum have never once in history had their shit together. All they've ever accomplished is bringing misery to themselves and exporting it to their neighbors. Hell, they export misery worldwide!
  Last century? 50-years of Cold War hanging over our heads. 50-years of planet killing devastation, good to go. If men like Vasily Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov hadn't had the balls to defy orders, we'd be living in Fallout.
  Once the Soviet Union collapsed? They turned into gangsters, overnight, fucking their people over, because that's how they roll. Raped the whole country, and you get what we have here today. Oligarchs raiding the military until it's almost non-functional. Oligarchs with world bending wealth while the people freeze to death.
  The Russians refuse to join the rest of the planet for peace and prosperity. FFS, North Korea is their ally. How fucked up is your situation when you're purchasing howitzer shells from the retarded kid living in a shack?!
  Now they're prosecuting a war against their little brother, failing miserably, barely hanging in at best. Ya know, because they fucked themselves over so hard they can't field working tanks, rifles or soldiers.
  And what do the Russian people do? Same thing as always! Curl into a depression ball and say, "So it goes. Pass the vodka."
  And for those of you coming along thinking, "Damn this guy hates Russia." I don't hate Russia nearly as much as Russians hate Russia. The minute those people show an ounce of spine, I'll be their biggest cheerleader.
  
  They do support the war.
  
  But over half of them support Putin.
  Just like the US citizens deserve the hellscape Trump will bring. Just like UK citizens deserve poverty and empty grocery stores for their Brexit vote.
  Quit pretending these country citizens shouldn't be condemned to the hell the tacitly approved of. It doesn't matter if one Russian or one Texan doesn't support their dictator, enough of their neighbors do. So suffer for your country and for the sins of your neighbors. They didn't do enough to stop it.
Wow, infrastructure breakdown left 20,000 without heat for a few days? That's not news. A good storm in the northeast can knock the power system out for days here. Just more mindless propaganda trying to make you think a certain way.
- A good storm in the northeast can knock the power system.
  But they didn't mention a storm in Moscow, that's the thing isn'? And the outages have been at multiple places across the RF.
  Here is a link fromThe Moscow Times
  Also nobody knows what you are talking about when you say northeast : NE from where?
  
  Good point. North east US.
  And you are right they didn't mention a storm, but that's not my point. The article title clearly exacerbates the problem, and points the blame in a way that suggests the Russians are either too stupid or too poor to fix the problem. Why should any of us care about such a small thing for one? And two, what is their intention? It's well known that NYtimes toes the state line when it comes to propaganda against American "enemies" .
  Really the only thing useful from the article is:
  "20,000 without heat in Russia due to infrastructure failure. Crews working to fix it."
  But then why would anyone care about that?
- Lemmy.ml needs to be defederated...
  Stop leaking your trash ccp/ussr crap everywhere.
  
  It's really just Lemmygrad in disguise.
  
  Lol. I wasn't showing any support for anyone, just pointing out the clear goal of the article, and especially it's headline. It's important to check sources, especially when there is a news article pertaining to your geo-political enemies.
- Absolutely on point.
  Totally not a big thing. It was Ukranazi children in Moscow. Russia just hit their own infrastructure to save all of them.
  Use logic! Fucking libtard Nazis, am I right?!
  
  And what are you going to do about it? Be upset? That sounds like a waste of your time, emotions, and intelligence.
  Like I said in another response, I'm sure what happened is mostly true, but the framing is for political purposes. It's important to be critical of the purpose of an article (to inform? Or to influence?) so you can focus your energy on the politics that you have influence over.

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