Monty Python best described the contest between competing philosophies with a soccer match:
(Listen closely, because Karl Marx comes off the bench at the closing minute, game tied, 0-0, then argues “Off-side” when Greeks score.)
Monty Python Philosophy Football, 1970s
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...