Russia isn’t in love with its own culture. If you read their books, you’ll see a sense of inferiority, intellectuals eagerly debating throughout history adoptio

Russia isn’t in love with its own culture. If you read their books, you’ll see a sense of inferiority, intellectuals eagerly debating throughout history adoption of Latin alphabet, just to become more European, and these days propaganda being mostly anti-West rather than pro-anything Russian. Whereas Japan really seemed to be in love with its own culture in the past. And I’d say rightly so.