[wetphoenix]

~But then, you don’t have the mentality of a Russian peasant. “It does not matter how poor we are, as long as no one is rich”.

This can definitely lead to trouble.~

Right now it is not the way of thinking of the majority of Russians.
But the more poverty the more in goes mainstream.
Russia is not any unique in that department.
I can see a number of people like that growing elsewhere, along with destruction of middle class.

[dfwgator]

~But then, you don’t have the mentality of a Russian peasant. “It does not matter how poor we are, as long as no one is rich”.

It's like Gorky says in Lower Depths, 'Miserable being must find more miserable being...then is happy'.