Snow.

VODKA!

Vodka

Borat My really nice Math Professor Starving people AHHHH-MOTHALAND!

Red, Billy Joel's song, "Lenongrad", and a the game "Jenga" with all he blocks stacked, but about to fall apart and smash the things around it , at any moment.

Tall manly women

Applied Tsarism. Let me explain: Communism was a farse in Russia, it never existed. You talk about a society that has always been oppressed. No wonders they produce the best chess players. You try to figure out a way to escape a check mate life situation. It must be the cold air that creates such an icy quick wit.

The Red Square.

what comes to mind when I say America?

A people who believe that they are very spiritual even throughout the time when they were forbidden to believe in any god. A people who have laid aside DECADES of control and had the guts to move into modern times. A people combating incredibly rapid social change, transitional governmental form, a lot of corruption. A nation with some amazing art - paintings in the Winter Palace. Tolstoi. Rimsky-Korsakov. Dostoyevski. A society in which young entrepreneurs with little education can make a hundred times the money of their Ph.D. parents. It's a nation of contradictions. A REALLY INTERESTING PLACE. I've been only to St. Petersburg and the country around it. I am wild to go back. I want to see Moscow.

My childhood.

Borsh. and then pel meni. then pirozhki. and vodka. and the Romanovs and Anastacia and whatnot and matryoshka and gzhel (the dolls inside each other and the blue and white dishes). I speak a little Russian, so having that class, Russia reminds me of a lot of things.

G'day Bandcorpsmom, Thank you for your question. There are a number of things both good and bad. The good things include: * A range of talented musicians, composers and writers such as Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy; * Distinctive architecture especially the churches; * A rich cuisine; * Lovely art including icons; * Great sportsman in a wide range of sports. The bad include a range of repressive regimes under the Tsars and the Communists. Regards

Stalingrad.

Unfortunately -> spy technology.

Stalinworld: the theme park, always comes to mind, even though it's in Lithuania. Skinny blonde waif women, who look half-sick. Mail-order brides. Prostitution. Big manly women with head-scarves. Snow. Wolves. Siberia. Big furry hats. Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachov, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Koba, Berin. Revolution and Bolsheviks. The Anastasia myth. Industry and communism - Soviet Union. Collectivization, five year plans. Show trials. Corruption. Poverty. Cosmonauts and space travel. Chernobyl. Religion - Orthodox, Catholicism. Beautiful architecture. Moscow. Red Square. The Kremlin. Large population. Rasputin. Putin. Ukraine. Vodka. Beslan massacre. Basically my stream-of-consciousness. I could go on forever. It looks like everything I think of is negative, it's not my intention, it just came out that way.

From Russia, With Love One of the best 007 movies!

KGB chillness those thick fur caps

Huge nation full of diversity and cultures Kamchatka and Siberia, the intriguing wilds of the mountains and steppes. Cold and snow, icebreakers plying the northern seas Peter the Great and the beauty of St. Petersburg Awesome passionate piano music, ballet and folk music.

Snow. But hey, that's probably what comes to mind when I say Canada.

Big fuzzy hats.

Those cool furry hats

Vodka! White bears walking on the streets! And white snow of cousre.

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky and obvss stolichnaya.... love russia.

Beautiful landscape, and even more beautiful women.

Cold & those fur hats they wear!

Vladimir Putin!