Empire. So St. Petersburg had two Philharmonic orchestras, it had two ballet companies, two opera companies, Hermitage is one of the greatest museums in the world. So the treasures of the Western civilization, the cultural treasures of Western civilization, of course, Russian literature is an integral part of the Western civilization and the Western literature. And so in a social cultural sense, it was very different. In a big sea cultural sense, you know, New York is a cultural capital, say, of the United States and St. Petersburg was the cultural co-capital with Moscow of Russia. And so the same core sort of Western civilizational values were no different. But yes, socially and economically, it was a completely different system. But you asked me, you know, how Russians or Soviets thought of America actually at a human level, there was absolutely no enmity or against Americans. It was actually admiration. There was a magazine called America, America. In the Soviet Union, there was (30/96)
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