Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
For instance, while Russia culturally is IEI, historically it has attracted a SLE style of governance.
Interestingly, admittedly I've always held a viewpoint that Russian culture was very SLE (although I am really no expert on Russian culture), but then again it seems like there is a lot of art from the Russian world (classical music comes to mind) that doesn't seem very SLE.

I'd be interested to hear why exactly people are saying Russian culture is IEI, also I'd be interested if the SLE style of governance refers to modern times, soviet times, pre-soviet times with tzars and so forth, or the whole line of Russian governance.