Quite the contrary, Russians are very much alive. They won the WW2, but lost the Cold War. It all led to shrinking the nation from 250mln people to 130mln (less

Quite the contrary, Russians are very much alive. They won the WW2, but lost the Cold War. It all led to shrinking the nation from 250mln people to 130mln (less than Nigeria). But Russians never lived that well, like nowadays. I saw it with my own eyes in St Petersburg and Karelia. I can compare it to images of my childhood in the same area. Russians are always reborn and never defeated.