Just to lighten things slightly...or not as the case maybe!
Were not CCCP the inventors of 'lo-cost travel'. One rate for buses, trains, planes regardless of distance (if you could get a seat!?!) if my understanding is correct. But that was really bad and not reflective of a 'market economy' in the economically developed West, so we promised the earth and broke the wall down, and now they are worried that they will become the 'dump zone' for all the industry the 'cultivated West' does not want!
Mind you, it would be fun watching the 'football shirted' one's trying to enter a drinking competition with the locals
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