a russian will fight until the final
Russians fight till the end to save their family from oppression back home by the brutal authorities led by a crazy dictator. Today Putin, in the past Stalin or Ivan the Terrible. Those Russians are really miserable.
A joke from Cold War times:
US and Soviet military organise a meeting. Officers decide to test their soldiers` discipline and loyalty.
An American soldier is told by his superiors to leap off the cliff into certain death below in the name of Ronald Reagan. He refuses: I can`t. I have a wife and kids.
A Russian is told the same by Soviet officers to die in the name of Leonind Brezhnev. He quickly climbs the cliff and is going to jump when Ams stop him and ask. Are you crazy?? Go down and back to the camp!
He replies: I can`t. I have a wife and kids.