LankaWeb – Beyond the Surface of the Earth – Sri Lankan Perceptions of Russia in the 1960s—and My Own Journey

Sarath Obeysekera In the 1960s, most Sri Lankans knew very little about the Soviet Union. To many, Russia was simply a distant communist country—cold, secretive and politically opposed to the West. Some believed that its universities could not match those of Britain or other Western countries. Yet I saw Russia differently. I believed that the […]