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"Russia… Russia never changes."
For a thousand years, the land has been ruled by strongmen who promise glory while stealing bread from their own people. The faces change, the portraits on the walls change, but the paranoia, the censorship, and the hollow slogans remain.
From the tsars in gilded halls to the party secretaries in drab offices, to the modern oligarchs in glass towers — each calls himself the savior of the Motherland. And each demands loyalty, not through love, but through fear… and a never-ending parade of invented enemies.
The vatnik swears that Russia is surrounded, that the West is plotting its downfall, that life is hard only because someone else is to blame. He waves the flag, curses NATO, and proudly ignores the potholes in his own street.
Borders shift, neighbors are invaded, history is rewritten. But the true constant is the belief that Russia’s greatness is just around the corner… if only the people would sacrifice just a little more.
Russia will endure, yes — but so will the chains it forges for itself.
Russia… never changes.