[annalex]

Not quite. Nations change. Americans, for example, were once British. The Soviet man is indeed a new phenomenon that has little to do with Russianness as we know it through the centuries. The present population of the Russian Federation, while retained some ethnic Russian roots has acquired a different, ugly mentality on display today.

[Freelance Warrior]

Whay can’t ‘Russianness’ change through centuries also? I think you have never come across the idea of “Russia as the 3rd Rome” or the Byzantine Christian Empire which were in effect in the Tsarist Russia.

[elhombrelibre]

I agree. The Russian man/woman today yearns for the whip either on his own back or to use it on others. Leaving people alone is beyond their ethics. Their support for Putin shows they're a benighted lot.