On the other hand, my parents and grandparents were engineers who worked hard, had a dacha and a boat, went to music school and went on vacations to Crimea, Moscow, and so on- now my father works several hundred km to support our family while the factory my mother worked at went bankrupt because they cannot compete with third-world labour, but in the process she developed a tumor and other health issues from working with chemicals and she cannot afford to get any training for a different job. Also, unemployment benefits will cease soon.

Such is life.