What are your opinions about Russian people's mentality?
I was at a dinner party recently at which a man thirty years my senior said, "I feel like Russians just like to suffer. Why else would they choose Putin so many times in a row?"Being a native Russian, I giggled. Nobody chose Putin. Maybe that first time, but never the other times."Why don't they break out a civil war?" He then asked. "Don't they like democracy?" And I told him the truth... That we have democracy. We also have market economy. Neither helps with corruption.Russia has been through two revolutions, one civil war, and three financial crashes within the last 98 years. The mentality is that of survival."It is all going down under," my older acquiantace says. "Russia won't be a country all too very soon."I giggle again.People have been saying that since 862.
Why did the russian people dislikeTsar Nicholas II of Russia ?
That is a myth. They were not disliked as much as the people that replaced them. Stalin killed 30 million people. The communists were basically no different than lowly common thieves. They took control of the country and they lived off of the riches they stole from the royalty. The communists killed anyone that disagreed with them.
In Russia do people actually use the Cyrillic alphabet?
You know how to pronounce a word written in Latin alphabet only because you've been doing it all your life. I've recently had a long painful for my brain conversation with a Russian guy who tries to understand the rules of English spelling, he finds there aren't any, it drives him mad, he drives mad everyone else by his endless questions. Cyrillic was designed for serving Old-Russian language. The language has been changing through the centuries and so has the alphabet. The same works for modern Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Belorussian, Serbian languages. Do you want to feel the difference? Compare it to the situation with the Slavic languages using Latin alphabet. In Polish you have to use a combination of 4 (four) letters to describe the sound where in Ukrainian they write just 1 (one). Щ vs SZCZ - taste the difference Get curious and check in Wikipedia (for instance) any text written in Czech, Polish or Croatian languages - how many additional points, lines of all shapes and designs do they need to fit their sounds into the Procrustean bed of Latin alphabet. Do you want more fan: have a look how does it work in Romanian language which isn't even Slavic, but the Romance one - a descent of Latin language itself. You just have to make yourself to learn it once - and the rest of the time you study or read and write in Russian you will discover only the advantages of the Cyrillic alphabet.
How do russians afford such nice cars?
So I have a lot of russian people who go to my school. Many of their moms do not work, and their dad is a construction worker. Not all are like that but many are. And they all drive around BMW Mercedes and cars like that. My dads a doctor and he doesn't even drive those cars. Any ideas? I dated one once. He drove a brand new Subaru and his dad bought him the car flat out. And now he pays back his dad. How can he pay for it when all he does is put a roof on the house