--- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> The people in Russia are getting fatter, therefore
> stupider (see Carl R's previous post) and more
> nationalistic, less cosmopolitan, socialistic and
> internationalist?
>
> Regards,
> Mike B)
>
It's very simple. The past is interpreted using the schema of the present.
Lenin = revolutionary = Yeltsin = bad
Stalin = builder = Putin = good
The concept of "nationalism" is a bit tricky in Russia given that ethnic Russian nationalism and Great Power Russian nationalism are quite different things, but certainly both are on the rise for a variety of reasons.
(The Soviet population was never very cosmopoitan. The country had a mostly rural population until the 1960s. Come on, guys, we're talking peasants here.)
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