I've recently began to research the cold-war propaganda of the eighties...from vintage soviet posters, to the regan-era super-patrotic movies like rambo and such. My girlfriend and I sat down to watch ROCKY IV and during the scene where they began to sing the National Anthem of the Soviet Union, she began to sing along. I was puzzled because as any young American growing up in the eighties remembers, we were indirectly taught that Russians themselves were having tough times under the Soviet-Socialist system and that after the break-up, Russians were finally a free people (with liberty and justice for all, yadda, yadda, yadda.) My girl went on to explain to me that she was extremely proud of her Soviet Heritage. That they had a great many accomplishments in academics, the military, sports, industry, culture, science and just plain-old MIGHT - she's extremely proud to have been a Soviet. Anyone else feel this way?