The primary incentive for the state to nurture a strong, skilled and educated labour force is to build an highly industrialized, high-value society; without that, the education and worldview, therefore, dignity, of the populace is thrown into the trash bin and allowed to decay. Some of the decay translates into what some may view as decadence.
Americans always cry and pretend that they are a victim of aggression, but they never ask themselves why those countries attacked them, in the first place.
In their mind, those countries just attacked them for no reason, rather than as a response to imperialist meddling in their affairs.
That ~21% unemployment rate is based off the 16-24 age group; composed of high school and university students, whose main task is studying and not working.
Yes, I'm aware that there are two words in the Russian language that are both simply translated into English as "Russian": the one for ethnicity and the one for citizenship. I didn't feel the need to point it out since most people think only of the former.
Russians look European, speak an European language and have a culture that's immensely inspired by that of other European countries.
There's not really anything "Asian" about them.
It's all true. If Russia didn't turn socialist, Hitler wouldn't have felt so insecure! He saw Stalin looking so handsome even though he ate all of Ukraine's grain, so Hitler decided to destroy the USSR because if he couldn't attain those levels of chad, then no one else can.
Why would this event possibly result in a civil war?