Growing up at the tail end of the Cold War like I did, Soviet Russia was this weird other place that part of me wanted to visit, if only to say that I'd been there and liked what I had in America better.
Russian culture, as far as I could discern from pre-Revolution through post-glastnost, was weird but not that weird. And being part of the last Cold War generation, as much as I wondered how America might change after a nuclear war, I was equally curious how Russia might change. I seem to have found one possible scenario in Metro: Last Light, and it's a decidedly Russian experience. Which is to say, weird but not that weird.
