Thread: Liberties of the Russian people .

At work, so very briefly:
Yeah, what Ramil is saying is making a lot of sense.

The UK, where I am currently living, is suffering from the "post - empire" syndrome too..

Partly people are proud and see themselves as a major power, because of the past, and the English language..
Partly they know that the UK is only one of the "big 4" in the EU... Or the US knee-dog
depending on how you look at it.. So national self esteem swings from exaggerated to "we are nothing..."

Up until recently I had actually thought that Russia was back on track to becoming a serious political power though, under Putin (his good or bad sides aside..)
Between the USA or China I don't know who I distrust the most. For some reason I don't feel at all as suspicious about Russia.

But it seems there is still too many problems in Russia for it to make any kind of comeback as a political power to balance out power.
I admit that I never really saw the USSR in a terribly bad light (maybe naive kid...) so I was pretty shocked when all the "dirt" about it came out in the 1990s.
And now it's the exact smae story day about modern Russia until finding out from people here that it's really a very corrupt country...
But like someone said on this forum: You can like a country without liking the way it is run.

Originally Posted by Hanna

The UK, where I am currently living, is suffering from the "post - empire" syndrome too..

I'd say russian "siffering" is more related with things inside the country. Russian people "suffer" mostly not because whole world stopped to afraid them, not because they "lost" Ukraine or Belorussia.
Russian sport has been destroyed. This Winter Olympic Games was the most terrible since Russia has been taking part in it.
Today in Russia there are more homeless children than in Great Patriotic War time.
Russia produces only 3% of world science intensive goods
Moskow State University wasn't included in top-200 universities in this year.

Personelly i think there are no things in Russia today which russians can be proud of. This is the reason of suffering.