>It's just that the ideological differences are still huge and the Cold War >propaganda in the West IS a form of reality through which, as if it was >some sor

>It's just that the ideological differences are still huge and the Cold War >propaganda in the West IS a form of reality through which, as if it was >some sort of glasses, Western people view the stuff that was going on here >in USSR. The Soviet lies died when the Union fell, but the Western ones >are living and well. Haha, didn't mean to make a rhyme... It's not that I consider myself or Russians or any other group of people to be in a position to think of everyone else as being in an ivory tower. But there are certainly some Cold-War era myths and concepts that are still alive and kicking. Maybe because today's Russia is culturally really not a very significant country and there is not much interest in what was going on here in XX century... OK, I admit, this was off-topic...