There is a joke about Belarusians. As you know, in Brussels there is Manneken Pis (the peeing boy). Belarusians allegedly have a sculpture called “The Unwriting Boy”. And the Belarusians are asked: "Why doesn't your boy pee?" "And he endures," the Belarusians answer. It seems to me that this joke can be applied even more correctly to the Russian nation, which has endured for a century.