>Plus communism is about sharing with your community. Adding on to this, my impression of Russian culture, observing both historically and today, is that Might

>Plus communism is about sharing with your community. Adding on to this, my impression of Russian culture, observing both historically and today, is that Might Makes Right(tm) is a core tenet. That is to say, if you can do it and get away with it you are justice. The two mentioned in the article clearly are (were) getting away with it, so as far as they are concerned they are right and everyone else is wrong. Russians don't care about ink on paper unless it can literally pickup an AK-47 and shoot them.