Russia has over twice the number of orphans as the USA

These people can't even take care of their own children, and they think they can overthrow the USA?

The women are better at being cheap whores than mothers, apparently.

[quote] Neither is the situation particularly rosy regarding Russian adoptive parents. [bold]According to official government statistics, a child adopted by Russian parents is 39 times more likely to die than one adopted by parents in the West. Of course, the causes of death include not only murder and involuntary manslaughter but also car accidents, illness and other factors.[/bold] Unfortunately, even those statistics understate the problem because Russian courts often fail to initiate criminal proceedings when children are the victims of mistreatment or abuse.

They are a pretty neglectful and uncaring people, to say the least.

R3 that reminds me of how Eric Clapton's 4 year old son Conor died. He was staying with his mother in a high rise, supposedly a cleaner opened all the windows, and the child ran or fell out of the window to his death, I think in New York City.

I'm not defending the Russian family - the child is well dressed though - probably has a drunk/stoned/high mother or other caregiver not paying any attention. Extreme poverty tends to lead to extreme child neglect/abuse - not that long ago in England/Ireland or here (remember the factories where they chained the children to the machines at age 8 or so?)

Humans are brutal animals. It's a wonder we've improved (some of us, to an extent)

Just another fine example of Russian parenting.

A Russian dad shooting up Krokodil with his son.

I guess in Russia, the father and son who shoot up drugs together, bond together.

That's all so disturbing.

The real outrageous thing, however, R4, isn't so much the mother who may or may not have have been temporarily neglectful (or worse).. it's the people videotaping who sound just about as concerned as somebody ordering food at a drive-through.

I'd like to think someone was calling the police or counting the floors and heading over there to knock on doors to find the child. (I doubt it but we can't be sure.) They cared enough to film it.

Family bonding time in Russia.

Teaching your son how to shoot up drugs in Russia.

I wonder how pervasive this all is.

Their parents are all a bunch of whores and alcoholics. You always hear these bizarre stories about drunken parents in Eastern Europe murdering their kids.

Russian parents allow their kids to start drinking hard liquor, on average, by age 11.

Explains a lot.

Just another pair of Russian parents passed out at a public park.

Russia is pretty fucked up, but do y'all have to start a separate thread about the same phenomena every day?

Somehow the rest of the developing, 3rd world knows that drinking while pregnant is not a good thing, but Russian women do not care enough to quit drinking for 9 months.

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It’s not pervasive, r12.

Most of these examples are due to alcoholism. I also would not put too much stock in the number of children in orphanages. Russians, unlike Americans, tend not to foster children.

I've grown skeptical over the decades. Who's to say this isn't some bot propaganda?

[quote] Russians, unlike Americans, tend not to foster children.

Because they are sociopaths and more likely to give up their children to an orohanage?

orphanage*

No no think it’s because most of them are not well off.

Their country has been destroyed by communism. Same with Ukraine.

Not surprised.

Disturbing.

Russia is the trash of the world.

Go to bed Hillary.

I love how R28's response is the Russian trolls' favorite response, so much so that they use it in every thread.

go to bed Chelsea

Let's keep the focus where it belongs.

Trump loves Russia.

[quote] I'd like to think someone was calling the police

Do they even have police in Russia, or aren't they all just drunk and useless like everyone else?

[quote] Trump loves Russia.

Of course he would. Cheap whores, tacky taste, and stupid people is what he lives for.

Vicious cycle started generations ago and snowballed. The girls are trafficked and drugged routinely, in the porn world they’re called “Natashas.” When rape and domestic violence against women is the norm, and everyone is alcoholic, and the girls don’t get a good education or access to birth control, you end up with an endless stream of unwanted babies born with fetal alcohol syndrome. They, too, grow up to be abused and abusers and lifelong addicts.

Putin’s goal in part is to fuck with the rest of the world and break down democracies so he can effectively tell his people See? Their lives are no better than yours. Don’t protest, don’t complain, don’t bother hoping for anything greater. You can take pride and satisfaction in the knowledge that the Americans, who always thought their way of life was superior to yours, live in a shithole too now.

That one dude, I forgot his name but the one that jerked off and ate his cum and has all these gross tattoos and is "straight". He was a Russian orphan and was adopted by American parents.

Look how fucked up he turned out to be.

Vadim Black, R36?

children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome are notorious thieves and liars. but they can't help it.

Was Queen Putin borne with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?

Outside of the major cities, living standards for Russians are worse than they are for Chinese.

Are there any nice pictures of Russia?

R41:

I love these trash Russiantbreads. The troll farm grunts try to be so above it all but they take the bait EVERY TIME.

You know why, dear Sergei? Because you're all so stupid and your brains have been pickled from drinking vodka from the age of six. You won't win this war, you never win any war.

Russian THREADS*

R43

They have won wars, r43.

How do you think the Russians were able to defeat Napoleon and Hitler?

Because they were out of their fucking minds.

Ok I watched the video from OP's opening post. Poor kids, the little boy singing a song to his dead mother (?) got me. :-(

According to an article just posted on NPR which I’m too lazy to link to, Russian 4th graders just scored better on national reading exams than American 4th graders. That’s depressing. The Republicans and fundie Evangelicals have dismantled and defunded our once-great public school system.

Do they like blue too?

You buy me the big fur, I tell you all the Russia secrets.

Please close your legs first, Raisa

R48, I wouldn’t put too much stock in that. Russian is far easier to read than is English.

If science and math scores are higher, that would be concerning.

I watched the op's video. This will be the USA without it's social safety net.

Never think you'll see homeless rat-children living on the streets in this country in your lifetime? Well I never thought I would see shantytowns in this country in my lifetime. We're on the slippery slope to hell, folks.

Come on, op, as if these things don’t happen in the West. Ever been to a struggling former mining town? Same shit. I don’t like Putin either, but no need to be Russo-phobic. It’s also a much harsher climate. These same problems happen in the northern part of my country, Canada, too. The material conditions often make life difficult and reactions come accordingly.

I disagree r54. Inuit don’t throw out their children, even those that are alcoholics.

Nasty-ass motherfucking bitches.

The miserable, fucking Russians want to drag the rest of the world down with them.

Could it be due to the radiation exposure from the various nuclear accidents they've had due to lazy drunk Russians?

No. It’s due to communism. It’s the same in every former Soviet republic.

R46, yeah, Napoleon. That was in the 1800s. They win their little Commie skirmishes in Eastern Europe, but modern Russia (such as it is), is a flaming bag of dog poop. And they're too drunk and stupid to vote out Voldemort. Because where will the trolls work then?

R1's pic has Zaporizhzhia overlaid on it, which is in Ukraine. Not quite as bad as Russia but not that much better either.

You think fetal alcohol syndrome is something new?

The Russians have been completely bonkers for centuries.

ergot poisoning

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The real tragedy is that all those Russian orphans weren't circumcised like they would be in the USA.

The children in Russian orphanages aren't taught any life skills so when they age out of it and are released they turn to prostitution or drugs.

This is what you get when you have a robber baron for a leader... Trumps idol is filth and leaves his country a drift with no one to care for it's needs.

I often think of the movie Happiness and how true to life the portrayal of Russians is in it. Seriously.

Ruthless, conniving people. Those that immigrate here always end up milking the system, too (i.e. welfare, food stamps, section 8).

What the hell is the matter with Russians?

They are more interested in getting drunk on vodka, or smoking drugs, apparently.

And god forbid any of these orphans are adopted by a gay American couple. They're "saving" them from that, by dooming them to a life of addiction and early death. Hail Mother Russia.

Exactly, R72.

So, did the couple and toddler in [R1]'s picture wake up and move to the spot in [R16]'s picture?

R74, at least he didn't move to the spot at R3.

Thank heaven for small favors!!

That's what I was wondering r74. That's impressive I didn't think they could make it that far.

R37 I think R36 is taking about Michael Hoffman

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How despicable. Russians should be sterilized.

R21, thinking the same thing. Why are we getting all of these anti-Russian threads? I’m certain many Russian citizens suffer from alcoholism, addiction, poverty, mental illness, & homelessness, but this is nothing new.

I vote based on a series of comprehensive issues. My vote will not be influenced over the lives of Russians.

There’s tons of bullshit propaganda being spewed everyday and everywhere. I am not a fucking idiot, and know bullshit when I see it, hear it, and smell it.

To troll the Russian trolls, idiot D80. If you don't like it, fuck off!

Damn. A kid ODing on a street in Russia, and when people call his mother, she does not even care.

This thread makes Americans look just as bad, if not worse. To watch the video above of children starving on the street in a country that has been ravaged by its leaders mercilessly for generations and then ridicule them for their resulting hardships is disgusting. Millions of Russians starved, murdered, tortured, the majority left alive now in hopeless sick conditions with little to no power over their government is something that should make Americans wake up. Let alone note the hypocrisy of blaming Russian people for what is going on. The Russian government is clearly not the will of the people. It's just like conflating Trump with you, OP. Are you a Trump supporter? Your ignorance and hate make you a perfect deplorable. Pick up a history book. Get off your fat welfare ass and get a library card. At least read a history book if you won't get a job. You have it much better, but you don't deserve to. It has nothing to do with merit.

Oh, get the fuck over yourself, Mother Teresa, R83. Nobody is "making fun of them." If anything, it is appalling that they treat their kids that way, and people all over the world should know what is happening in that country.

Just highlighting how terrible their country is, and how ironic it is that the Russian government spends the better portion of their time and energy interfering in other nations' politics, rather than addressing their own awful, terrible problems at home.

Maybe Putin can spend a little less time and money hiring and paying Russian internet trolls, and scapegoating gay people, and a little bit more time trying to fund decent orphanages, clean needle programs, drug and substance abuse programs?

Hmmm, just some food for thought!

They're too drunk to use birth control responsibly.

And too stupid.

r72 I know a lesbian couple who adopted from Russia, one of them adopted as a single mother.

Wow, these Russians "parents" are total trash!

Russia is the largest country in the world. They have over one third of all of the Earth's natural resources.

What is it about Russians that they fuck everything up? Is is stupidity, corruption, lack of morality, or all of these things?

Damn. I had no idea Russia was so fucked up.

I know several M/F couples that adopted Russian orphans. Every one of them a mistake. They all were happier before they adopted the little monsters.

If the babies are just dumped in orphanages and not properly cared for and nurtured in there then they will quickly develop attatchment problems, especially if they already have FAS. That can be impossible to turn around by the time the child is a few years old, no matter how loving and informed the adoptive parents are.

They need to invest in their society from the bottom up - as R85 said. I would add prenatal/maternal healthcare to that list.

And Trump wants America to be like Russia.

It's too late for Russia. They are beyond help.

If you adopt a baby 1 year or younger they should be okay if the parent works on attachment, I know some families who adopted from Russia and the kids are thriving. Though there are a few FAS kids that will have more issues.

Awful.

Poverty, homelessness and early death have all risen since Russia embraced capitalism.

Terrible.

See, this is why we borrow all that money from Russians, to help the poor little orphans.

Murder all Russians. Not even joking.

You'd think Putin would concentrate more on trying to stop all this instead he wants to give the impression that he's a world master. Like many Russians, he just doesn't care

Of course he doesn't care. He is a genuine sociopath.

And Putin still stopped selling them damn kids to Americans.

What a depressing and embarrassing situation for a "world power."

Putin sucks up all the money, so there are no social programs to help parents raise their children.

Sorry, but thanks to Russia we have enough problems now here and I could give a fuck about some vodka-brain brat who will no doubt turn into homophobic alcoholic murderous Trolls. Fuck em, we can't save the world.