俄罗斯现在不比以前苏联时期好吗？

以下是一俄罗斯人在pekingduck论坛上的发言：
http://www.pekingduck.org/archives/003880.php#comments

the MOST SALIENT contrasts I can draw between Russia and China in the 1960s and 70s, is the GENIUS of so many Russian filmmakers in those years - even in the "years of stagnation" under Brezhnev, Russia was producing BRILLIANT works of art in the cinema - WITH STATE SUPPORT, mind you - including:

1. "War and Peace" by Bondarchuk, 1965-1968 (won Academy Award),

2. The works of Tarkovsky, including "Ivan's Childhood" (no relation to me :-), and "Andrei Rublev", which was FULL of Christian imagery and religious concerns, precisely because it was about the life of Russia's greatest icon-painter

3. I'll list some others later

Not to mention, how Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" was published IN RUSSIA in 1961, again with state approval. (And yes Solzhenytsin kept pushing, and so he was exiled in 1974 after publishing "Gulag", but in Mao's China, a Solzhenitsyn wouldn't even have survived to write his book.)

In the 1960s, while the Chinese were beating the ???? out of their best teachers and destroying their ancient works of art, the Bolshoi Ballet carried on in Moscow, and the Tretyakov Art Museum remained not only undamaged, but revered and promoted by the state.

Finally, to any CCP apologists who chime in here to talk about Russia's "chaos": Today, Russia is NOT experiencing tens of thousands of peasant riots every year, like China is.

And as far as "economic development" goes, I've known many MIDDLE CLASS Russians who can buy and sell 99.9 percent of Chinese people several times over.

Go to Moscow. (Preferably for more than a short whirlwind tour.) Go see what it's really like. Go and actually GET TO KNOW some Russians, INTIMATELY, in their own homes and dachas and cafes and museums or wherever they gather.
(Gloss: If the only Russians you ever meet are those in China, you will not be getting a representative picture of what Russians are like, or how they think.)

Go and get to know some TYPICAL Muscovites, and yes you'll hear them complaining about Russia. It's their hobby. And you know what you WON'T hear from MOST Russians? Any knee-jerk defense of Russia, like you hear from even the best educated Chinese. A Russian will NOT tell you "You don't understand Russia", if you take a position contrary to his...

....no, if you argue with a typical Russian (of ANY class) today, yes he'll defend Russia if you talk nonsense about it, and he may (or may not) be a chauvinist about Russia. But what he will NOT do, is reply to you with any pre-fabricated lines which any Ruling Party brainwashed him with.

And that's because - well, actually, the MAIN reason, is because Russians LOVE TO DEBATE!
They love a good argument. (All the more reason to drink more with their opponents! :-)
Most Russians will NOT end any argument with any prefab phrase like "You don't understand Russia." No, because that wouldn't be as much fun as arguing with you all night. :-)

And if THAT is "CHAOS", then I say, "BRING ON THE CHAOS!"

And the vodka. And then we will have some tea in the morning, and meet again to carry on the argument later. So I think that's the best way to end this comment: The principal difference between Russia and China today, is that in Russia, the arguments just go on and on and on.
And that is the mark of a Great Nation - and that is exactly what the CCP fears most.