Boiling Water

 

Every year in Russia every town and city has to turn their hot water off (sometimes by District and sometimes the whole area) in order to fix major issues.

I have lived there when they turned off the hot water and you have to either use cold water or heat up water on the stove.

If you are lucky you know someone in another District that still has hot water and so you go to their house (then they come to your’s when their hot water is out.)

The Russians claim it is because their system is very old, but I have been to places hundreds of years older and they don’t turn off their hot water. It is just because their system is poorly and cheaply constructed.

The whole country is one big Potemkin Village (where the outside looks modern or good, but just below the surface or behind the scenes everything is failing and falling apart.)