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		nikcub on March 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do Russians smile so little (and Americans so ... 50+ years of living under dreary communism can do that to you. I see the same throughout Eastern Europe. Some countries came out of it better than others.

daimyoyo on March 28, 2011 | [–]

It wasn't the 50 years of communism as much as the 400 years of imperial oppression that preceded it.

rubashov on March 28, 2011 | [–]

Hungarians are really friendly and had the worst of Soviet oppression. I don't think it's history. I just think Slavs are morose by nature.

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