I don&#x27;t have any utopian view of life in Russia or anywhere.  And I was not intending to make a statement about modern Russia or really Russian culture, more about my observations from reading classic Russian literature. I think modern Russia has, like America, a confluence of old and new philosophies that contend with each other, and produce different results different places in culture.<p>But in my thinking on this subject, at least, there is a difference between dependency and responsibility that I think maybe doesn&#x27;t come across the best.