We all know the Russkies are a hardy sort. After WW II, if Stalin wasn't killing off his own people, he was busily annexing unwilling countries.
Despite each of the long histories of these countries, he crushed their spirits, erected all manner of statues to himself and that idiot Lenin, built hideous housing (to save money for a military that we now know was unsustainable). And similar sociopathic behavior.
So when the USSR fell apart, the constituent countries took great pleasure in erasing any vestige of their former oppressors: toppling all those egregious soviet statues and re-declaring their new-found freedom.
The above is one of my favorites: some formerly serious Soviet war memorial has now been gleefully redecorated. With American superheroes no less! (Ronald McDonald, too, but that only adds insult to injury.)
However, the Ruskies weren't done yet: they lodged a formal complaint to have the memorial restored to its former boring look.
Fat chance of that happening.
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