• Rakonat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Russian culture is pretty much the embodiment of might makes right. If you inflict harm on someone weaker than you to prove a point, you’re manly. If you had the opportunity to inflict harm on someone and get away with it, but chose not to, you’re a coward. The military recruitment and hazing process only servers to turn this up to 11.

    This has been the basis of Russia for the last 3 centuries if not longer, and its how they think the world should work, but can’t figure out why everyone hates them, especially those both geographically and culturally close to them.

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      When in Russia, rule as the Russians do, right? Crazy how much influence someone like Ivan the Terrible can have on culture and broader world events from such a distance.

      • S_H_K@lemmy.fmhy.net
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        Puts into perspective that right or wrong are a social construct don’t ya? What we should consider is in what is based our right and wrong.

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          The fact that a culture of extractive economies and strong-man leaders inculcated by a sociopathic nobleman hundreds of years ago can culminate in war crimes, an attempted coup, and the demographic collapse of two countries does not engender in me a profound appreciation for moral relativism. You can pump the brakes and put that one right through the fucking windshield.