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Only the headline says "Russia". The story does not. Headlines are awful; I wish HN would rewrite them more accurately and less clickbaity. (See also: the "Why"

• vacri 11y ago
  HN uses the article title for the most part. And the article itself is very clearly talking about the Soviet era, where "Russia" meant both the specific country Russia and the USSR as a whole. Just as how in the 19th century, "England" meant the specific country England and also Great Britain/British Empire. Neither the photos nor the copy suggest the topic is modern Russia.
  • dang 11y ago
    > HN uses the article title for the most part Yes, but with explicit exceptions for misleading titles and linkbait (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), both of which were the case here. So harryjo was right and we've changed the title. If anyone wants to suggest a better one, we can change it again.
• dang 11y ago
  Yes. I'd love for you to realize how much we already do remove inaccuracies and linkbait from titles on HN. Users help greatly by pointing out inaccuracies and linkbait when they see it. If a title is particularly bothersome, you can usually get a quicker fix by emailing hn@ycombinator.com, since there are too many HN comments for us to read them all. Even better is to suggest what a good title would be, especially if it's a phrase from the article itself—that is much better than making up a new title oneself, though we did do that above.