For a ramblin' semi-OT story...
I am a public school teacher. A few years ago I had a Russian student. She was smart and had interesting ways of thinking. I enjoyed working with her. One time I asked the kids to write an essay about bullies or being bullied. Hers was different. Apparently in elementary school an older boy bullied her and her friends. She came up with a solution. They would lure him into a difficult-to-see part of the playground, and beat him down with sticks. She had already broken off and stripped some suitable tree branches. One of her friends had her parents have a sit-down with the principal instead, and the problem was solved. My student was somewhat disappointed.
I asked her about it, just to enjoy the conversation. She said something to the effect that she might have inherited some of her personality from her grandmother. Apparently Grandma had been a partisan and had killed any number of Nazis. After the Soviet Union fell, her kids and grandkids emigrated to the US. They eventually got Grandma to follow them here. She had her own apartment and was enjoying her life doing grandma things, which doubtless including drinking tea (Russian style). One night she heard her door lock jiggling. She took appropriate measures. Some guy had jimmied her lock and strolled into her apartment. She was hidden in some sort of closet or alcove. When he walked past, she stabbed him in the torso, then cut his throat. After that she dragged him out the front door so that he wouldn't mess up her rugs any further while he bled out. She was busy cleaning her rugs when the cops showed up. We live in Texas, so she wasn't charged with anything.
It appears that her granddaughter will be salutatorian this year. She is one of those kids who is kind of nerdy, but no one ever tries to bully her or mess with her. She is hard-core like her grandma.