Wrong and wrong.
You are saying that probably because you, as an American, have burnt in image of Soviet Russia that has fought America and the "West" for 50 years.
But you have to keep in mind that communist Russia is only small part of their history. You have to look before and maybe take a look at their royal Romanov family and say that they are "not white" and "eastern"? https://www.theromanovfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/russian-ark.jpg
Are we really going to say that greats like Catherine the Great, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky, Anrei Rublev etc. are not part of western culture?
Wrong and wrong.
You are saying that probably because you, as an American, have burnt in image of Soviet Russia that has fought America and the "West" for 50 years.
But you have to keep in mind that communist Russia only small part of their history. You have to look before and maybe take a look at their royal Romanov family and say that they are "not white" and "eastern"? https://www.theromanovfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/russian-ark.jpg
Are we really going to say that greats like Catherine the Great, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky, Anrei Rublev etc. are not part of western culture?
Wrong and wrong.
You are saying that probably because you, as an Americanm have burnt in image of Soviet Russia that has fought America and the "West" for 50 years.
But you have to keep in mind that communist Russia only small part of their history. You have to look before and maybe take a look at their royal Romanov family and say that they are "not white" and "eastern"? https://www.theromanovfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/russian-ark.jpg
Are we really going to say that greats like Catherine the Great, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky, Anrei Rublev etc. are not part of western culture?
Wrong and wrong.
You are saying that probably because you as an American have burned in image of Soviet Russia that has fought America and the "West" for 50 years.
But you have to keep in mind that communist Russia only small part of their history. You have to look before and maybe take a look at their royal Romanov family and say that they are "not white" and "eastern"? https://www.theromanovfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/russian-ark.jpg
Are we really going to say that greats like Catherine the Great, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky, Anrei Rublev etc. are not part of western culture?
Wrong and wrong.