I was born and grew up there, and have seen them up close - no crack pipe needed.
If you read the historic data from archeology, that the average peasant in Kieven Russ kept journals, that when Charles II (I believe) married a Kieven Princess, he couldn't even sign his name, while she read and wrote and was well versed. That Harold's daughter (the last Anglo Princess of Angleland [England]) fled with his wife to Kiev, after Hastings, and married a Kieven Prince.
How do you explain Chakovsky? Dostayevsky? Gogal? or anything else. That you hate your old culture is obvious from your posts, but intellectual honosty is something to strive for.
And you must consider the Nut Cracker derevenskayo gavno. Oh and the village communes were something that was introduced by the WESTERN trained intelligencia (oxymoron) in the 1860s and destroyed by Stalypon in the 1900s to be replaced with free farmers (just like what was in Siberia), why Stolypin was assassinated.