How many great things (inventions, people, ideas) have come out of russia? NEARLY NONE BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Where have the great majority of ideas (capitalism, humanism, etc.) and inventions come from? The West and Japan. CASE CLOSED
Hey, now seriously.. gimme a brake!
Great inventions, people, ideas... none from Russia? You must not be serious?
That nation was first to send satellite to space. First human in space. First (and only) space station (now it's replaced by multinational space station, still mainly operated by Russians).
Few of World's most respected composers, writers... world's best chess players...
World's greatest athletes, for example track and field athletes, top ice hockey team, powerlifters and so on.... through history.
Most powerful weapons, traditional and nuclear ones..
List goes on and on. I'm not going to write more here. You can do the search.
Fact is you must be one of the most stupid and uneducated human on GB. Start learning, boy - it's never too late.
And there was actually a rich culture and civilization in Russia long time before European countries sent their poor failed people to America to make it their colony...