What does racism in Russia actually look like? It doesn’t follow Western rules. It follows its own. I’m Elvira Bary. I grew up in Soviet Russia, and in today’s video, I’ll show you how racism takes shape in a country where over a hundred ethnicities live—often blending together through generations of mixed marriages—yet being white…
I grew up in Soviet Russia—in a closed city called Gorky, which literally means bitter. And bitter is exactly how things felt beneath the shiny posters of “indestructible friendship among peoples.”On the surface, we were all one big happy family. But in reality? If you weren’t Russian, you were treated as other. As a child,…
Everything you’ve heard about Russia’s “brotherhood of nations” is a myth. Over 100 different ethnic groups, countless languages, and radically different cultures—yet somehow, they’ve been held together under one flag for centuries. But unity doesn’t come naturally. To control its vast, resource-rich territories, Russia must channel human lives, wealth, and power into a single, centralized…
