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I'd rephrase the question: "is the PRESENCE of regional accents something that must be blamed on something?"
Because I don't see natural reasons for difference in accents across one and the same...

It's absolutely amazing how you, westerners, can blame anything on "all those years of socialism".[/quote]

Yes "us" westerners because the West consists of a homogenous monolithic mass of people...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but was this really what the "elite" did? As I understand it, it was a sign of slavishness. I remember Dostoyevsky mocking it somewhere in his writing.