What else is there to do. They don't travel, they haven't seen the world, and they certainly won't see it now, they don't read books, they don't have hobbies. It's depressing and hopeless. Gray life in a gray house, gray clothes, dirty entranceway. Apartment khruschevka and noise from the same neighbors. Tomorrow to work in a gray bus with gray frowning as the same poor people. For dinner, substitute sausage and cheap pasta. For breakfast, coffee substitute and palm oil. Of entertainment Chinese phone bought on credit and watching TV for the evening as Europe is freezing. Tosca, hopelessness, hopelessness and the constant - but what depends on us! The authorities know best!

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