I can't read Russian literature anymore. Not only does it proceed from a culture that has brought nothing but misery, death, destruction, ignorance, barbarism, mysticism, and autocracy to the world, but also it revels in this fact and tries to paint it as good. For example the disgusting slavophile rants in the Idiot which paint the west and western christianity as degenerate and corrupt while praising Russian troglodytism as the manifestation of a culturally superior spirit. Every one of these Russian writers could be mistaken as putin speechwriters. Ultimately every single russian feels a barbarian in comparison to the West and this gets transformed into a gross nationalism that is putrid and bellicose because it is rooted in an inferiority complex.