[stavros]

> Your experience is vastly different from the common folk.

Have you grown up in the reality that the majority of the population faces?

If not, it's a bit presumptuous to be telling someone who has grown up there that you know better than them what their country is like.

[matkoniecz]

> If not, it's a bit presumptuous to be telling someone who has grown up there that you know better than them what their country is like.

If someone has decent evidence of situation then it is not.

I have never lived in USSR but I have enough knowledge to dismiss some misleading claims, even if they are coming from people who lived there.