Diplomatic history

I watched the opening of the Winter Olympics at Sochi. It was an entertaining trip through history but some things were missing.
For the Russian people I have met, the 3 great invasions of their country are still important memories: Genghis Khan, Napoleon and Hitler.

None of these were mentioned in the ceremony, although the period was included, the early years of the country, Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, and workers before and after WW2.

They concentrated on socialist realist art and patriotic composers, not history.