Edvard Radzinsky has written an article about the upcoming generation of liberated Russian girls (translated to English from his native Russian). He terms it "the other Russian revolution" and explains how girls who grew up oppressed under the old Soviet system are becoming women set to conquer the world.
MOSCOW--For the greater part of the 20th century, Russia's population suffered from the nightmare of wars, repression and perpetual hunger. There was the famine of the Civil War, the famine of the years of collectivization, and the famine of the Second World War. It almost seems as if the relative prosperity of recent years has engendered a peculiar reaction of the flesh, something almost akin to gratitude. All across the country, a plethora of beautiful girls has sprung up.With bared midriffs and piercings, they are outwardly very like one another. In fact, there is an immense gulf dividing this throng of beauties. One group is astoundingly uneducated; their lives consist of nightclubs, concerts and narcotics. The other (and these are many) is just the opposite. They are highly educated, and have plunged rapturously into the ocean of literature now being published in Russia--those famous books by which the world lived in the 20th century and which have only now come to us. These women study with merciless obstinacy, hours and hours every day. Each knows several languages. In spite of their youth, they have already visited the great capitals of Europe, as if realizing the dream (so recently unattainable) of their grandmothers and grandfathers.
There's almost no better measure of a society's freedom and liberty than how it treats its women.
I'd go more along the lines of Tammy Bruce's opnion and say its how a society treats its women & Jews. because when things start going bad for Jews in a given country, everyone else will be getting screwed really soon.
Attitude and education don't mean much without political stability and freedom. Russian women can have all the moxie they want, but it doesn't matter if the local crime lord or government goon can still break their kneecaps if they step out of line.
We've already watched this in China, where an idealistic and enthusiastic bunch of college kids dreamt of a brighter future and a new tomorrow. They gathered together in Tianenmen Square to celebrate and share the love. But it didn't turn out too well.