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i don't understand why its always the most run down countries that think others want to be ruled by them, surely it is advisable to get one's own house in order first?
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OP states he's not Russian though. People in the West such as writers have had this strange fascination with Russia for centuries, they would romanticize it without knowing much how it actually is, projecting traits onto it that just plain don't apply, thinking it's on the same caliber as Western European nations when it was a pretty bad, un-Western place to live under the surface of pretty looking nobility. I suppose it's the same effect that created the myth of the Noble Savage.
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i don't understand why its always the most run down countries that think others want to be ruled by them, surely it is advisable to get one's own house in order first?
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Right, most of the world doesn't understand Americans either.
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OP states he's not Russian though. People in the West such as writers have had this strange fascination with Russia for centuries, they would romanticize it without knowing much how it actually is, projecting traits onto it that just plain don't apply, thinking it's on the same caliber as Western European nations when it was a pretty bad, un-Western place to live under the surface of pretty looking nobility. I suppose it's the same effect that created the myth of the Noble Savage.