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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug5353, post: 2227066, member: 73555&quot;]Russians survived (and some thrived) because they had many years of tradition of having a jackboot (if I may mix metaphors) on their collective necks.&nbsp; Here and there, a few joined the Party and did pretty well.&nbsp; They suffered horrendous losses (in both men and goods) during World War II, and in Ukraine, especially, tens of thousands starved.&nbsp; But they are resilient and crafty, for the most part.&nbsp; Even the best of my Russian friends are still a bit reserved, after 30 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>They have long been somewhat handicapped by using the Cyrillic alphabet, which hampers communication and understanding with the rest of Europe, with its millennia of Latin-based (and halfway similar) Romance languages, aside from the Teutonic speakers who, in turn, became the enemy of both camps.</p><p><br /></p><p>But still, Survivors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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