[Nothingburger]

I see your point. I like to say this: Putin may be an SOB, but he’s an SOB for Mother Russia.

How could I possibly hate a culture that has given us Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich ... among many others?

[ought-six]

Don’t forget Rachmaninoff. And Tolstoy.

[ScholarWarrior]

Don’t forget Shafarevich.