I saw this question asked today, and it's an interesting thing to ponder.
Western civilization 'experts' (at least they proclaim themselves as this).....are likely sitting there and looking at the past 500 years. In their minds....of the top hundred writers to live and breathe.....Russia probably contributed a quarter of these people to western civilization.
Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Solzhenitsyn, and Nabokov would be on that list.
Some people might even say that cutting off society from the worldwide internet....might not be such a bad thing, and Russians would get back to simple conversation, and lecture each other on charm, and lust.
I always thought of Russia being this place where there was Moscow, St Petersburg, and then 99-percent of the rest of the country as some 'hole-in-the-wall' living situation.
In some way.....I felt like Moscow was the 'engine' and the 'brakes' of the country. If Moscow was failing in some way....it would be obvious across the rest of the country.
Will regular Russians just stay.....to be entertained by Putin's military operation and economic decline? If you had a real education....real 'drive'....then I think you'd take your family and depart the country. Maybe the lesser folks would stay and wait this out....but if you ranked the top one-million Russians on resume value....my humble belief is that the bulk of them will be gone inside of a year.
So, maybe in exiting the country....these folks bring some Russian values and ideas with them.....to Germany, Canada, and the US. Maybe it is a positive thing.
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