you'd be pessimistic too if you lived under the tsardom and then the ussr. poor guys havent had good leadership in like 500 years.
This reminds me of classic Everquest, in which some players argued that Ogre players were better because for a long time there was a bug compelling the guards of their own home city to try to kill them.
German literatur: "i will not die for my word lives on. I mearly sleep in the forest/mountain/rivers"
Russian literature is somehow too life-like.
Well, at least the Italians lived... right?
Is this accurate?
Lithuanian literature: I killed a cat, now I'm sad about it.
Latin American literature: "they are killing us"