Am I proud of my country? I was born in 1989, when my city was called "Leningrad", and the country called USSR. Growing up at the junction of two ages, when the union collapsed and a new history of the Russian Federation began. Almost nothing I remember from this but from the stories of my parents everything was pretty bad. At school I began to learn the history of my country from the very beginning and I can say that I have something to be proud of. Tsars, Emperors, Petersburg 17-18-19 centuries and its palaces and balls, great poets and writers, scientists and conquerors of the space. The first man who flight into the space are the real hero Yuri Gagarin, the first artificial satellite, the launch of satellites to other planets. The USSR conquered the space. Immortal works of Pushkin and Gogol, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Bulgakov and Chekhov. Many languages translated «Master and Margarita», «Crime and Punishment», «Idiot». Music, you can recall the classic works of Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, the Soviet rock groups «Кино» and «Алиса», «Ю-питер» and Butusov. All this sinks into the soul. I am writing this text and I understand that I am proud of the past era, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union. What can I say about modern Russia? Almost nothing. Space - he had always obeyed with great scope, the cinema - a piece of shit, with rare exceptions. Music - the same like cinema. I am proud of athletes, hockey national team and synchronic swimmers, individual sports - everything is fine here. But then again, my favorite game since childhood - football and what our championship and the team - without comment. I do not want to revile the present country but patriotism is brought up from childhood on the achievements of a gone generation, it is sad. Am I proud of my country? I don’t know.