Zhores essay part 2/?: Historical issues, biases, and matters of culture.
In part one I did the basic jist of the facts we know, and so now I can actually start to move into headcanon territory, but first a little note on just how effing difficult it is to get a clear picture of the cold war.
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b) It makes a lot of sense to me. Zhores' cultural identity has to be incredibly complicated due to just how long he's spent in Germany, and I like how that puts his habit of languages into a more interesting context to me. Out of curiosity, if he'd been sent to a country with a less fraught history with him, do you think he'd have started identifying more?
c) Have you slept?
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b)Probably not. After everything Russia still is his homeland. It's just like say, being from a state with politics you hate and moving to another one. You still love your state and might even say "I'm an X-ian", but you're sure as hell not going to move back as long as things are screwed up there.
c)I did! Eventually.
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