It makes me sick.
Its hard not to notice glee on the Russian websites/forums re kicking Georgian (and by association - American) ass. While not that many are longing for return of Communist rule (no more than 25%, judging by various elections in the last decade; and don’t even start the conspiracy theory that collapse of the USSR was a gimmick), most are nostalgic for Russian prestige and power in the world stage, and the lost Empire. During Olympics: so many calculations of combined total of medals if the Soviet Union was still intact. Then they would beat Chinese and American butt for sure.
They don’t see a paradox of simultaneously looking down at people from Caucus or Middle Asian -stans, and wanting the Empire back, including all these people as subjects. Another inconvenient truth all those praising Stalin conveniently forget, that during the terror years nobody was safe - no matter how small potato you were, or how far you lived.
The best Russian writers (the sole of the nation for the last two hundred years) had the slave mentality of populace as one of their main targets. Its still there.
sole=soul
duh