The only reason Russia--and the USSR before it--worked at all was the babushkas, the grandmas. The generation of men who were young 1941-1945 basically died in the Great Patriotic War. If the grannies didn't deal with shit, it didn't get dealt with.
Harry Turtledove
Ah, Midwest humor. Am I going to elicit a laugh or get punched in the face? Good times... good savage times.
