Your statement belies that you really don’t know much about Russia or it’s culture going back a 1000 years.
They made the sacrifice in W.W. II the west did not. They lost close to 30 Million people and will not ever forget that. If not for Russia the war would have been lost in Europe. We made a deal with Stalin and had to live with it.
If the US had not invented the Nuclear Bomb I think it is possible that Russia could have gone on and taken over Europe, they had the strongest armies and could have easily beaten the West at that point in time. England was broke and the US was already War Weary and still fighting in the Pacific. Europe was a total wreck all over. A lot of what ifs here.
“Your statement belies that you really don’t know much about Russia or its culture going back a 1000 years.”
Yeah buddy that’s the point.
They have the history and culture and are completely wasting it.
Read up on Russia.
Great mathematicians , musicians , etc.
They are a thuggish country, wasting who they COULD BE.