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I’d like to learn whether you got interested in Russia after playing Pathologic
Yeah, I guess. Except I never made it very far into Pathologic; I loved the fact that it was a very different game, uncompromising and challenging in a way that most "western" games I've played aren't, but I simply couldn't understand the translation. I really wanted to enjoy it, but finally I couldn't take not knowing what people were saying to me.
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Russians are taught that most foreigners share a common prejudges that Russia is a country of gypsies, wild bears and endless snowfields.
I'm not sure about the gypsies and the bears, but my mental picture of Russia is that it's a complicated place with huge differences- between one region and another, between rich and poor, between city and countryside. Also a more dangerous/violent place than western Europe: we read news about political murders of journalists, and Chechnya, and corruption, and I have an acquaintance who left the country because she didn't want to raise her kid there (can't remember which city she left). But that's one side of the picture, and on the other there are economic growth, artistic innovation, etc.
So tell me more!
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