“leftover soviet mentality” that prevents you from becoming like the fabled western supersoldiers. I see this internalized self-loathing and inferiority complex all the time especially among the liberals and the middle class of my own native (eastern European) country.

In Poland it’s everywhere, even more insufferable because a lot of people, especially on the right, managed to somehow combine this with the typical polish brash superiority complex, creating truly incredible pendulum.