During the 1990s and early 2000s the Russian people kept a fig in their pockets while staring at the surrounding squalor and drowning their soul agonies in wine. 
NAME_1 is the perfect image of a simple folk hero, hence the resonance. 100% hit, 10 out of 10.
Madly sorry about NAME_2 and NAME_3, they would have made such a mess, individually and together.

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