Ex-russians, who (or whose parents) left Russia, seem to have some kind of romantic connection to the country, they have never been to (or been there when they were young, thus "sun was shinning brighter, grass was greener, trees were taller, and the ice-cream was tastier"). They read old russian classic literature, watch soviet movies, and imagine the better Russia it really is not.
Lex in his interviews many times speaks about Putin as of a leader who loves his country and thinks about his people, which has barely any connection to reality, unless Russian TV and other country's media, cleaned up of any dissidents, are been consumed.
