>>514700942 (OP)
Totalitarian style patriarchal families, both during the USSR and the 90s, which destroyed normal human emotional expression in both girls and boys.
No hugging or warm feelings withing families. Kids as little soldiers in the hands of father, extremely patriarchal, and mother, also extremely cruel and patriarchal.
Very cold social environment influenced by gopniks, that is, murderers, serial killers, pedophiles, and other prison goodies. The whole Russian society, and every other Post-Soviet society, operates according to the reality of prison for life thugs and inmates: a very cruel, cold, impulsive, and mentally ill of perceiving reality. Their homosexual dynamics is a reflection of the relationships in prisons, where status is determined by passive and active status in homosexual rape.
The result of this is the contemporary Russians: frozen people who can't feel any normal emotions and think the whole world is a prison arena where you must dominate others or get fucked. For the standard Russian, the concept of tender love is as foreign as a friendship without backstabbing.
The same holds true for Estonians, Latvians, Polish, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Bloc nations. USSR and its psychological damage was something else.