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What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [911]
why does everyone want to live in prosperity in the West and not build a great russia
That's what makes them so unhinged.... the cognitive dissonance of trying to reconcile their socialization (russia is the greatest ever! all other countries are crap! especially the Anglo-Saxons!") with the reality that life for average people is far higher in many, many, many other countries than it is in russia which is a big potemkin city and a second semi-potemkin.
I remember the video of a pretty nomal looking Polish village and russians couldn't believe it they thought it was an enclave for the very rich....
They know at some level that compared with many other countries russia is.... a failure and they externalize tha failure as unremitting hostility and ungratefulness toward their hosts....
The same is true in the Baltics.... russians know that the countries are far better off without them in charge and that modern comparative prosperity has nothing to do with them and so they cling to soviet imagery all the harder.... collecive narcissistic wound....