It isn't relic. Just like coffeemug I was born and raised in the Soviet Union.
It's not openly taught in schools but most ethnic Russians consider themselves higher race and everyone else is intellectually inferior.
This is even taught by Russian Orthodox Church. I graduated from high school after Soviet Union collapsed. We had this course called Christian Morality. In the class room I learned curious thing. It turned out that Jews drank blood of innocent Christian infants during their religious rituals. I am not kidding you.
Russian exceptionalism is outright nationalism and borderline nazism. My own father is openly hostile Ukrainians and Pols (other Slavic people). Why? Well, because they are Ukrainians and Pols and are not Russian. Therefore, it makes them half-human.
Soviet and Russian empires are long gone. But Putin and many Russians still dream to restore it.
It's not openly taught in schools but most ethnic Russians consider themselves higher race and everyone else is intellectually inferior.
This is even taught by Russian Orthodox Church. I graduated from high school after Soviet Union collapsed. We had this course called Christian Morality. In the class room I learned curious thing. It turned out that Jews drank blood of innocent Christian infants during their religious rituals. I am not kidding you.
Russian exceptionalism is outright nationalism and borderline nazism. My own father is openly hostile Ukrainians and Pols (other Slavic people). Why? Well, because they are Ukrainians and Pols and are not Russian. Therefore, it makes them half-human.
Soviet and Russian empires are long gone. But Putin and many Russians still dream to restore it.