Russian Argument

Kujou Mariya Mikhailovna

The Romanov dynasty brought Russia into the modern era! Three hundred years of glory and cultural refinement!

Kujou Mariya Mikhailovna

Can your Soviet era claim such magnificent achievements as the Hermitage or the Amber Room?

Reze

Your precious tsars kept millions in serfdom while nobility danced at lavish balls.

Reze

At least the USSR brought literacy and industrialization to the masses. And beat the Nazis.

Kujou Mariya Mikhailovna

The revolution betrayed Russia's soul! We could have had constitutional monarchy like England.

Kujou Mariya Mikhailovna

Instead, your comrades brought purges, gulags, and bread lines!

Reze

Space race. First satellite. First man in space. Scientific advancement while your tsars were consulting mystics.

Reze

(If only she knew what it was really like... the things I've seen as an agent...)

Kujou Mariya Mikhailovna

Pushkin, Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky! Russian culture flourished under imperial patronage.

Kujou Mariya Mikhailovna

Your Soviet art was all tractors and workers with stern faces. Where was the beauty?

Reze

Tell me, Princess, would you rather live as nobility stepping over peasants, or in a society where everyone has education and healthcare?

Kujou Mariya Mikhailovna

Well, ideally as nobility, of course! But I see your point...

Kujou Mariya Mikhailovna

Perhaps we could compromise? Your Soviet education with my imperial fashions?

Reze

To Russia's future then—hopefully better than both our pasts.

Reze

Though I'd still keep the space program. And maybe your fancy tea sets.