https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/85be1cd1-a93c-4225-b6c2-1609dd8e6140 Russians have long praised the much-mythologised 'Soviet education', which was supposed to be comprehensive and bestow its recipients with a kind of high cultural and moral supremacy over others. This video perfectly captures the key features of Homo Sovieticus culture. In it, an elderly Russian woman boasts about her higher education before stealing a pair of shoes from a store. She is then confronted by much younger female employees who caught her on CCTV. She goes through the full cycle of the typical Russian defence mechanism when caught red-handed: fierce denial, personal attacks, an appeal to empathy, questioning the ownership of the stolen goods, claiming that, if they did not belong to anyone, it was her right to take them, and challenging the employees with, 'So go and call the police', before trying to run away when they actually do call the police. After a lengthy quarrel in which she uses every weapon in the Homo sovieticus arsenal, she finally gives up, returns the stolen shoes, and leaves in anger. Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:54:41 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.echelon.pl https://video.echelon.pl/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/85be1cd1-a93c-4225-b6c2-1609dd8e6140 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.echelon.pl/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.