There was a time when I was supposed to hate Russia. We were all supposed to hate Russia.
It was back when I was a kid, in the 1970s and '80s. Russia - well, technically, the Soviet Union at that point - was country non grata. Russia was the imposing bear to our freedom-loving eagle. Communism versus capitalism. Mutual destruction. Cold War. Spies. Olympic rivals. Reagan and Gorbachev and all that.
