>the Sovs did have a heck of a lot of weird peoples under "one roof"
>considering they were a contiguous empire, like the Lunars, and also
>like the Lunars they tended to stress how each people ruled themselves
This is pretty much the definition of empire (as I learned it in Anthropology class).
>there were lots of shamans in the Russia & the SU in the 20th century
And a fine Akira Kurosawa movie about one, called "Dersu Uzala" (or was it Ozala?).
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