Well Barry, now THAT particular Russian trait DID serve 'em well during Hitler's "Operation Barbarossa", as I'm sure you know.

Uh huh, their strategy in THIS case was to throw as many bodies under the Tiger tanks as possible and EVENTUALLY those pesky Germans would be stopped dead in their tracks!

(...and so of course THIS is just ANOTHER holdover in their innate social fabric!!!)


Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)