If you ever thought that nationalities existed as a point of fact like species, created by genetics, instead of made up from whole cloth (that would be “constructed” in modern cargo-cult scientistic lingo…), I give you this headline from BBC News: Stalin comes third in poll to find greatest Russian.
Stalin was Georgian. They don’t even use the same alphabet. And arguably he was trying to create a new nationality called “Soviet.” It doesn’t even fit their conception of being “Russian” very well…it isn’t like “American,” something you can become by subscribing to a set of ideas (unless you’re Sarah Palin or her supporters, in which case it means you’re a white person from a town where books are frowned upon).
