Originally Posted by
Winemaker
Do real Russians believe this stuff?
To answer that, you'd have to ask how much of your own stuff you believe. In your case perhaps westerns, in my case perhaps books about the "glorious" British Empire. Hopefully as we've aged we've both been able to see the many sides of those stories, but for those living in a society that punishes any thinking that doesn't toe the party line that chance probably doesn't exist