They are not like us. They have had their guns confiscated, their land collectivized and their people starved to death by the millions, their churches closed, their children indoctrinated, and their wealth and income stolen. They have no desire to go back to revisit that.
We are not like them because our government wishes us to experience the above.
The average Russians I know remind me of what this country was like before we became a worker's paradise.