You must be talking about some of the ones that “stayed home” after the wall came down. I’ve met and worked with many from the former Soviet Union over the past 20 years, and none of them were as you describe; not even the young man who was in the Kmosomol before coming here with his parents after “the empire” fell apart.
My son plays “World of Tanks,” sometimes, on the Russian server, and the Americans rail continually — and in the most florid verbiage imaginable — against the Russian players. Not so the Russians. Not at all. In fact, dropping chat fragments from the Russians into Google Translate reveals that — for their part — the Russians are talking among themselves about the weather, local affairs, computer problems, server lag, girlfriends, their kids, their jobs — mundane stuff you jawbone about with folks you know.
Turns out, most of the American players think like you about Russians, but very few of the Russian players think like you about Americans.
Still, it’s curious how so many Rooskies like their new strong man. Liberalization was just a passing fad...