unwashed, downtrodden and uneducated russia gave the world tolstoy hz on gorky gogol lomonosov chernyshevsky gagarin korolev tsiolkovsky krylov and so on and so forth, yes. i'm tired. i am russian and i i'm tired of apologizing for the fact that i'm russian, for the fact that the blood of those who nailed the shield to the gates of constantinople flows in me. those who destroyed the roman empire, who mastered one sixth of the land , those who saved europe from the tatar-mongols and the nazis, those who drove through the streets of paris , those who saved the future of the united states from britain on ships, yes. yes, and this too can be listed a lot, but each state has a page of history that you can be proud of. well, why should only russia be embarrassed by its history and sprinkle ashes on its head and in front of whom? before europe, which destroyed the aztec incas, the maya burned people at the stake , cut out their fins, and sold the rest into slavery. i wonder what we must do so that finally all those who have been humiliated by us forgive us. maybe we should stop writing about our history in an apologetic and self-dep