Christmas is on the date you would expect from an Eastern country – 7th January – but I’ve had the impression that our millennials & younger care more for the 25th December Christmas (like in all those cool Western movies they watched). *Universities monitor this as well, but not with the same access level and I’m not sure how hard and widespread this is.Why? What about the food situation?— Cafes generally suck horribly when it comes to food. There are very plausible suspicions that they are able to access accounts, read messages, monitor activity, gather data. {{familyColorButtonText(colorFamily.name)}}. There’s a bunch of food like typical salads and the most important, climactic part of the New Year is…… the speech from the president on TV.I’m not even joking. Also you are tied to your polyclinic and its wonderful doctors based on your residence location (hello serfdom), so if it sucks, and it’s a bit of a lottery with them, you’re screwed.The conditions in the hospitals themselves are pretty grim, as well.

Think about a childish paranoic who thinks up wild conspiracy theories to justify the cruelty of his actions, his insecurity and lack of personality and future. Now a little bit about that.— Most of every generation doesn’t have cars, which means lengthy commutes by trains or minibuses every time (over the course of decades).— They don’t really have shops in the villages, except some basic food supplies. Or no road.

They’re pretty cool though, especially for someone with a thirst for nature.

Oh yeah, now I remember. Your team's Premium Access agreement is expiring soon. Food in Daily Life. Nurses give preference to the younger generations and doctor’s treatments, given their education, is about as good as you might expect.

You damn ingrate. That means if you gotta go, you go to a forest or one of those wooden toilets (if any).— Heating and stuff is usually done with firewood and the power of the Sun.So why do they even bother?

Social dista- what? I have no idea why they do this.— Solid food is sometimes off as well, generally I always found it far less appetizing than in the West.— The prices are not that much lower than in the West. ( Log Out / 

It’s still an important part of the culture so I had to write about it. In recent years some of the old commie blocks have been painted, but honestly I don’t see the point, it didn’t make life any better.The “entrances” of the blocks are always heavily littered, inner parts (foyer? But the zealotry of busting their backs and wallets for decades just to grow a few cucumbers is a bit excessive in my opinion.— Don’t get me wrong it’s pretty chill when the dacha is well-built and organized. Ah, the days of 2 DL /0.2 UL Mb/s, how I do not miss you.— Some websites are blocked as well. While millions of people around the world are still confined to their homes, in Belarus, soccer games are being played and restaurants are open as usual.

Almost as if they’re all watching.— Decoration is minimal but in the city center buildings tend to be slightly detailed. Can’t say I’m thrilled about it but at least it means we’re not behind the Iron Curtain.