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> Russians do get a bit too much press for their novels

Russians get a bit too much press for most everything, from nukes to unstoppable social progress to foreign election meddling.

Curiously, but possibly related, not for https://www.google.com/search?q=largest+country+on+earth

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could you please tell a bit more about social progress? I'd appreciate it.

I think it's a reference to the early days of USSR, when many in the West were gushing about the "new and better" society that it was supposedly building.

Right, unfortunately the 'novus homo sovieticus' was mostly Mrs. Busybody snitching on the neighbors. Drats.

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