The trouble in finding the truth of anything Russian is it’s difficult to pierce the xenophobic Russian mind set. No Russian will believe what he reads or hears or even sees. He’ll only believe what another Russian tells him. Think of that little Russian doll, I believe it’s called a ‘’kuchina’’. One big one on the outside and as you lift that one in descending order they get smaller and smaller until you’re right back to where you started.
Yep that is the Russian nutshell, totally different mind set than us.
I have a few Russian friends who are impossible to reason with on certain subjects, I don’t even try anymore. Not one of them supports what Putin is doing in Ukraine but Russia is somehow not to really blame because uncle so and so says so.