> what's modern Russia's attitude towards its own history? Looks like they're beginning to rewrite it. "Russian state is 1000-years old", "Russia singlehandedl

> what's modern Russia's attitude towards its own history? Looks like they're beginning to rewrite it. "Russian state is 1000-years old", "Russia singlehandedly won WW2" and so on. Combined with "Westerners are evil" rhetoric it helps keep population under control.