If you don't understand the horrors experienced by Russia in the 20th century (and before) you can never understand their mentality & policy considerations.
Russia lost probably the equivalent of the whole of its current population (around 170 million) in single 50 year time span due to wars, revolutions, civil war, purges, famines, another war.
All due to either 1) invasions from the West or 2) ideologies imported from the West (Marxism). Assuming the Russian Empire had stayed intact in some modified form without those calamities it would probably have 1/2 billion people or more
Considering that the pre-WW1 population of the Russian Empire was about 80 million more than the US at the time (almost double) & that it was rapidly industrializing, Russia was on course to be the dominant industrial power in the world.
All of what Russia was & could have been was wiped out. Russia nationalism must be seen & understood in this light
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