[cloudmountain]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago

I read only a bit of the saga. It was way too depressing.
There is NO RACE ON EARTH that has cornered the market on depression like the Russians.

[Dick Bachert]

Probably has a lot to do with those long, cold, dark winters.

Vodka explains why so many of the long car crash/crazy driver videos are from Russia!

And, of course, there's the dark, brooding music, some of which, like the Shostakovich Symphony #5, I've come to love.