Winston Churchill [from a trip to Moscow in the depths of winter during World War II: As he was being driven to see Stalin, a group of Russians standing in the snow eating ice cream was pointed out to him]: “These people will never be defeated,”
P.J. O’Rourke [driving to Moscow, seeing Russians standing in line in a blizzard to buy ice-cream]: “These people are nuts.”
I think P.J. might be right.
Many of the ones I have known especially the women are stone cold insane.
Russians know the world is watching and they will be on their best behavior World Cup.
“These people will never be defeated” - so said Churchill as millions of them died at their own leaders hands...didn’t need outside help.