It's amazing to hear how similar Roman's gaming history is similar to what I went through as a kid growing up in Serbia (former Yugoslavia). Only I had an Atari 2600 clone in the early 90s called the Rambo TV Game which had some 100-200 games built into it and I remember most of them being bad.
The piracy situation in Serbia is also similar to Ukraine (probably like most eastern european countries). The first time I saw a licensed game was when I was 16 in 2001 and that was in France. You just had no choice but get pirated stuff and most of the people still don't understand why they should pay for software, especially when a new release costs 80e (110$).
Concerning the political situation, just understand that whoever comes to power won't change anything. We had a revolution in 2000, brought pro-west "democratic" people to power and 14 years later everything is still fucked up. Neither of the sides fighting for Ukraine is there to help its people.
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