Disloyal ally
The Russians are not exactly famous for their nobility, when one looks at the Russian society what strikes one the most is the highly developed self-centered individualism that seems to have been bred into their personal culture ever since they were born. It is utterly wrong to assume this national characteristic to be a new post Soviet phenomenon, quite the opposite it has always been there and probably the main cause of their total defeat in the cold war. Their defeat was not because the Americans were better, but because the Russians sold out their allies and friends at every possible opportunity to safeguard very short-term strategic gains, which evaporated at the end of the month, but the ally, was gone forever. This very same feature, seen by the Russians as a “Virtue” did however cost them many lives during the Stalin era, which was conveniently blamed on the WW2 and the Nazis. When we dig further in history, we see so much betrayal and so much back stabbing that one could consi...