In elementary school or 'upper secondary school' we didn't have anything about the military side of WW 2, all that stuff one had to learn on one's own time. Especially if one had a female history teacher, they didn't like the WW2 at all, it was just about 1848 and French revolution etc. Interesting times on their own but WW 2 is the truly 'manly' part of history.
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Maybe they had Czars for too long - and the guys coming after the Czars were not less autocratic.
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Good point Skybird. Although Russia was established as a western country in the east they have often been shunned from the 'European table' for being 'barbaric', 'slavic', 'eastern', etc. And were the targets of two most recent world wars, and Napoleon. They too have a reason to be sceptical of the west, and pretty much all their neighbours.