Formerly I was inclined to discriminate between the governing elite of that country and its people. I strongly disliked the former, because of their insolent greed, their dull stubbornness, lack of taste and abhorrence towards any-one different than themselves.

The people as I used to think of them, were regular human beings having their regular human joys and despairs, living their lives and aching their pains. Like you, like me.

These days keep demonstrating me my wrongness. More and more frequently I find myself realizing that those people and that elite are essentially the same. Not only the people deserve those who govern them, but they are truly represented by those. And this discovery has made me gloomy and depressed. I started to feel ashamed when naive Israelis call me Russian. I feel embarrassment by the fact that we share one language.

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