Digg - Only in Russia…could you find Images like these! LOL

You're probably right in a lot of cases, but in this case i think you're wrong. You've obviously never been to Russia. The police drink beer on the streets, people sunbathe in dumps, etc.

If you take a second to think about the pictures, you might see the message that there is something uniquely Russian about the way these people work with what they have. Try to recall that not 15 years ago these same people were standing on bread lines for hours on end. They were lucky when they went to the shoe store and found shoes in stock and pretty much hit the lottery if the shoes were in their size. The country is just now learning to live with things like cars for personal use, private building development, pet ownership, etc.

When your heavily-planned, meticulously organized society unravels and you are left to put together something new with things you have never utilized before, these are the kind of things that happen. So yeah, I would say "only in Russia" because this rapid-collapse-of-communism phenomenon is unique to that region.

Instead of whining about an admittedly cliche word choice, perhaps you might try to understand what those words are meant to express.

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