Last night as I sat and watched the Sochi Opening Ceremony, I looked breathlessly on a beautiful and dark ceremony but something inside of me kept feeling that I was missing something. Missing some reference to culture or understanding of the true message that Sochi was hoping to convey. Here is an article helping to decode the Opening Ceremony and to help viewers understand that the ceremony was not for the world but for Russia herself.

http://world.time.com/2014/02/07/sochi-opening-ceremony-russia-putin/