Oh, yeah. And most ordinary Russians are just waiting for Putin to go out and conquer all their neighbors again. They took great pride in being the great Soviet Union, and hate the idea that they gave away all that glorious empire.
Still, better to be sniveling about a lost empire than to be starving in a Gulag. They just don’t know it.
Exactly. All the glory and power those wretched sods are crying about came at the expense of jackbootery that outdid the Nazis and had more than a few nations crossing their fingers that they wouldn’t be another “satellite”.