Calling pre-revolution Russian society "great" sounds like a bit of a stretch, mostly due to quality (and freedom) of life for biggest group of it - farmers.
There is a paragraph that mentions other countries having their own deportation systems. How much of "other countries bad" must be in an article about very particular Russian system?
This isn't about intelligence, this is about how you view other people. And what are your beliefs about emotion control - is it your responsibility to control yourself, or is it others people responsibility to not make you angry.
Anecdote : your comment striked me, as I was in almost the same situation (but with dead chicken, instead of dog) and my family member, very intelligent, highly respected engineer screamed at the child and hit the mother because "It was their fault". And this was one of the more "sane" reasons for their abuse.
> You don't expect the security guard for your office building to generate profit, why would you do so for your digital assets?
Yes, that's why companies cut cost on security guards as much as they possibly can. From the product-making company standpoint security
is a mostly a cost.
Also, private observation : Poland was relatively safe country during communist rule, although everyone was very poor. Then '90s happened, income disparity went through the roof, unemployment skyrocketed, and you could be greeted on the street by a group of young gentlemen asking you for your possessions, not to mention extreme gang violence and fights between hooligans.
Maybe government won't be overthrown, but you can easily loose the election.
European cities are dense, and there is limit to their growth, as they are often surrounded by tight circles of villages. Sure, you can build a few buildings there, but those villages are often fighting against high buildings, and residents often fight against urbanisation of the area. So you can't build suburbs like in USA and this makes the already problematic situation (high prices, big funds buying whole apartment complexes to rent them, many people buying apartments as assets and being afraid of renting due to protections towards tenants) even worse. So every building is worth it's weight in gold. And whole abandoned buying is going to be a daily reminder for many people that cannot afford to buy 1 room apartment about how unfair current situation is.
I don't want to argue about what to do with situation, just adding a perspective.
From what I observe, although spanking is described as basically harmless, not everyone who lived through it see it as something that improved their lives. Even if it was administered by well-meaning, loving parents.
Anecdotal data from Poland : mostly, yes, they are owned by people living in them, or by people renting them (people having small amount of apartments that they are renting). Mind you - in post-communist countries, in cities houses are not as popular as apartments, as we do not have USA-style suburbs.
There is issue on the housing (apartment?) market, but it has nothing to do with communism, mostly with capitalism - big funds are buying apartments en masse (mostly new ones) and a lot of people started buying previously cheap apartments and renting them, causing prices to skyrocket in the last years.