They are extremely stubborn and assertive. This is also why so many walk away from their American husbands. Often their husbands can't handle this assertiveness once they arrive in North America.

Those that valued poetry, art, music, anything that defied Marxism, were removed from the living.

Creative people are smart. They recognise the reality of their time and adjust accordingly. I would suggest to you that the brilliant Russians hid their talent.

Gulag is singular and not plural. It actually the Gulag.
Questions?

It somehwat may be a fact of upbring that you eentually may adjust. But do you really believe in 300 year crap? P.S. communism was launched shortly after 1917 where is 300 years here????

blood lines are genetic and take time to rebuild.

It lasted three generations. From 1917 to 1987. The last Gulag closed in 1991.

In any significant The slaughtering nature of communism that you describe only lasted a generation. This isn't long enough to wipe out a culture's genetic structure.

The younger generation has adjusted very quickly.

No, most of the murders were committed in the initial decades.

Try to have some compassion for a people who have had to survive genocide. The Russian people are great people. To answer the OP, it's the exception, not the norm, that a Russian woman will be a gold digger.

Now, you are showing understanding.

American women are materialistic moreso than women of other countries.

Filmmakermike,
so you are saying American women in general are less affected by commercialism because they have revolutionary blood? Soviet union was established by revolution in early 20 century. and still many Russian people are very creative, smart and courageous even after genocide and I don't understand what on earth 'the revolutionary blood of the founding of USA' has anything to do with commercialism of now 200 something years later. People all over the world now are ruled by commercialism from western countries especially from USA.

You are right in your observations. However the causes of young Russians, and I've known Russian female emigres from age 19 to 59, is that it's a fundamental genetic issue. The Gulags simply annihilated the genetic liine of any family who showed resistance, or revolutionary spirit. Those entire families and their genetic code was wiped out. 50 million people and their families.

What a bunch of horse shit. There is more than one way to object to the way you live, many people managed to do quite well during Communism by being in the government. Kids with talent lived very decent lives in order to dance or play music. Religion didn't die despite the fact that it was illegal and everyone was supposed to be atheist.

Then you must consider the numbers of people that got out at various times throughout history that continued those genetic lines and those that went back after Communism ended

many people managed to do quite well during Communism by being in the government.

50 million of the most outspoken Russians are genocided

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly

Resolution 1481 (2006)1

Need for international condemnation of crimes of totalitarian communist regimes

1. The Parliamentary Assembly refers to its Resolution 1096 (1996) on measures to dismantle the heritage of the former communist totalitarian systems.

2. The totalitarian communist regimes which ruled in central and eastern Europe in the last century, and which are still in power in several countries in the world, have been, without exception, characterised by massive violations of human rights. The violations have differed depending on the culture, country and the historical period and have included individual and collective assassinations and executions, death in concentration camps, starvation, deportations, torture, slave labour and other forms of mass physical terror, persecution on ethnic or religious grounds, violation of freedom of conscience, thought and expression, of freedom of the press, and also lack of political pluralism.

3. The crimes were justified in the name of the class struggle theory and the principle of dictatorship of the proletariat. The interpretation of both principles legitimised the “elimination” of people who were considered harmful to the construction of a new society and, as such, enemies of the totalitarian communist regimes. A vast number of victims in every country concerned were its own nationals. It was the case particularly of the peoples of the former USSR who by far outnumbered other peoples in terms of the number of victims.

4. The Assembly recognises that, in spite of the crimes of totalitarian communist regimes, some European communist parties have made contributions to achieving democracy.

5. The fall of totalitarian communist regimes in central and eastern Europe has not been followed in all cases by an international investigation of the crimes committed by them. Moreover, the authors of these crimes have not been brought to trial by the international community,

ou mean they were concentration Gulag camp guards and their administrators? How is being a part of genocide considered doing well, How do you define that? Just looking for some relationship morals here.

I don't believe that Russian or eastern European women are any more materialistic than other people that have come from cultures where there was no commerce and suddenly they are in stores where there is so much, they can't make simple consumer decisions.

because again, people do what they must to survive so the way they think and their actual aptitudes would not be absent, just subsumed. Refraining from following natural tendencies does not erase them from the gene pool, but they remained lying dormant until a time when they could again be open about their talents and intelligence.

In the entire history of cinema there has never been a director, who has made such a dramatic stand for the human spirit as did Andrei Tarkovsky.

"Here we are at the threshold.

This is the most important moment of your lives.

You have to know that here

your most cherished wish will come true.

The most sincere one.

The one reached through suffering."

(from STALKER)