Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌@AbandonedAmerica What global decadence & disrespect of life looks like:
2023: Billionaires pay ~$250,000 for a dive down to the Titanic grave in about 15,000 feet below ocean surface.
2001: Each Russian family, that lost a relative, when the Kursk submarine sank, killing all 118 crew members on board, was promised an apartment and 720,000 rubles -- more than $20,000 -- in compensation.
[At first Putin, as president-freshman of Russia tried to ignore the Kursk-disaster, but faced furious attacks from sailors' moms, so he performed a kind of emergency competence.]
#Submarine #SilentRunning #SilentDying #Titanic
https://www.rferl.org/a/1097233.html
Russia: Some Say 'Kursk' Death Payments Unfair (Part 2)
In the second and final part of her series on issues surrounding the sinking of the "Kursk" submarine, RFE/RL correspondent Francesca Mereu reports that Moscow -- stung by criticism that it reacted to the tragedy too slowly -- is now being questioned over its decision to pay out generous death...