Russia under the Czar was a far flung empire, incorporating many incompatible societies and tribes.
It was a bigger, even more disparate and conflicting motley of groups and religions than the Austro Hungarian Empire.
So, now, Russia under the Soviets has become a giant totalitarian cultural jellyfish, or rather, it doesn't know, frankly, whether it is fish or fowl, Mongolian tribesman, or urban St Petersburger!
And guess what? In its present outsized and indistinct form, it is like many oversized, supersized, Americans: you don't know whether you are looking at their head, their back, or their butt, they are so enormous and bloated!
Russia is like an enormous, unidentifiable Eurasian Sumo!
PS: You don't even know whether it's male or female, or some third thing!
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