> you're the one with a narrow historical horizon. all your gripes come from the period of 1945-1991. that's a blip in world history and in russian history too.  you sound like a moron, communism was instilled after the war in the eastern block it is the blip due to which the balkans generally hate russia (yet mostly the soviets) > and no, russia will give the world much more than raw resources, but the basic template on which revolutionary new ideas, that bring civilization forward, will be based. you are very vague, this is just you opinion and your own belief hence nothing that can be rationalized you could say the very same about the us, and not only would it require belief, it would also be a fact
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