I consider that Americans and Russians experience the political events experience in a different ways. My scientific curator in Moscow, a remarkable Soviet scholar in History of Education, narrated me below story.
One Soviet professor visited the USA shortly after Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. When this scientist returned to the Soviet Union, his comrades asked him like Americans experienced this tragic event. The Soviet thinker answered that Americans were interested mainly in who will be their next president and what will be his idea regarding…taxes.
I only repeated this story which I heard many years ago. I know that is a big simplification. On the other hand, we should remember that Americans and Russians attitudes in the face of death are totally different; the Slavic people declare different “philosophy of death” than Americans. In short, Americans are more practical attitudes in this matter. But, it could be a topic for particular journal or essay even.
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