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AK-74 in US government building? Looks prophetic :)

"Gun rights activists carrying semi-automatic firearms walk through the Capitol Building on January 31, 2020 in Frankfort, Kentucky."

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@yogthos As it comes to domestic violence - patriarchal culture always dominated in the Soviet Union maybe except for the first few "revolutionary" decades.

Central Commitee was always old, overweight men.

Earlier, Stalin's attitude was entirely utilitarian - when he needed it, he allowed abortion. When he needed - he banned it.

@yogthos I don't know where you have "lived through the collapse" but the fact that you associate loss of living conditions with 1993 clearly suggests Moscow.

What people experienced in Moscow or Leningrad - shortages, food coupons, queues - was for long time experienced by most people in satellite states and non-core towns of USSR.

In Poland we had that through 1970's and 80's. And 1989 was actually a huge improvement in living conditions.

@yogthos I doubt you can have find any such statistics from USSR other than enthusiastically positive :D

But it's rather unlikely that the number of domestic violence cases has dramatically increased in just one day after fall of USSR. Domestic violence is based on people's values, attitudes, alcohol consumption and most importantly the attitude of their neighours and relatives.

@yogthos In UK it's 173 domestic-violence related murders in 2018 so the rate is 0.2 per 100k.

@yogthos Domestic violence - many Russian-language sources, for example nasiliu.net/o-domashnem-nasili

Because with the recent law changes which stopped classifying domestic violence as a crime, majority of non-lethal cases of violence are not even reported.

Comparison of lethal cases shows 12-14'000 women killed annually as result of domestic violence in Russia. Compare that to 18'000 in USA and normalize by population (144 vs 350m) and you get 5 cases per 100k in USA versus 12.5 in Russia.

@yogthos Also top rate of suicides, abortions, divorces and domestic violence, so?

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The plant-microbial fuel cell (P-MFC) is a new technology for sustainable and in-situ production of electricity from living plants (Strik, 2008). The P-MFC makes use of electrochemically-active bacteria that catalyse the anaerobic oxidation of rhizodeposits at the roots of plants. By connecting the plant roots and bacteria directly to an electrical circuit, current will flow as a result of oxygen reduction at the other end of the circuit.
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