“Wrong friend. The history of the East is poorly understood in the West.”
I have a PhD in history. The region I studied was Eastern Europe. The era I studied was the Middle Ages.
Moscow was never the new Rome anymore than Lithuania: https://lithuaniatribune.com/are-lithuanians-descendants-of-ancient-romans/
So, yes, many don’t understand the history because they were not taught it. You’re proving to be an example of that.
That’s funny. Someone should tell the Russians