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They are their own worst enemies, and have been for centuries. They arguably had a small window of opportunity to get it right and Westernize in the 90's in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse that they utterly squandered. There's no fixing that POS country.

To be fair, their history wasn't pretty - and they aren't the cause of some of their historical miseries (plenty of examples from the 19 and 20th C with an atrocious loss in lives and property).

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Russia is a self-made tragedy.
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their cultural chauvinism where they believe, they are better than everybody else.
One really wonders what that belief is grounded in

It's no different than the cultural chauvinism of every superpower (past and present). Be that Americans of today, Brits during the days of the British Empire, etc. It's very easy for the society to fall into the trap of "we are the biggest, therefore we are the best". And while modern day Russia is no longer the superpower USSR once was, the memories of those days are still fresh in the cultural zeitgeist of Russians. It doesn't help that the entire Russian political system and propaganda machine are geared towards tapping into nostalgia for the good ol' days of the Soviet Union and spur the mass resentment towards how the Western democracies 'disrespected' Russia in the years following the Soviet Union dissolution. The resentment that is very reminiscent of 1930's Germany.
 

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