Pride

Pride is obviously not entirely negative. Pride can be vain, but isn't necessarily. 
Nor is it so in its etymology. « The sense of "have a high opinion of oneself," not found in Old French, might reflect the Anglo-Saxons' opinion of the Norman knights who called themselves "proud." Old Norse pruðr, probably from the same French source, had only the sense "brave, gallant, magnificent, stately" (compare Icelandic pruður, Middle Swedish prudh, Middle Danish prud). Likewise a group of "pride" words in the Romance languages -- such as French orgueil, Italian orgoglio, Spanish orgullo -- are borrowings from Germanic, where they had positive senses (Old High German urgol "distinguished").  »
Vainglory however is always vain.
One can say there is vainglorious pride—a negative.
Normal pride—a positive.
Norman.
Pride can be an aspect of humility, and a thing of duty and charity, because an individual's pride is a corporate thing, bound up through bonds of honour with the well-being of the individual's family. Sinful pride, or hubris, is pride without humility.
==== Negative sense of pride ====
Pride is fear. It's an attachment to a false sense of self. We fear that is we allow ourselves to be vulnerable we will lose who we think we are. Or that we will be rejected, or that we will suffer. [...] Pride will prevent you from feeling love, as well. [...] Pride and Ego want to be right. And they're gonna find a way to "be right."
"On pride within the Soviet Union:
On 26 April 1986, an accident at RBMK Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union resulted in the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen.
In 2019 – before the coronavirus pandemic struck the world, the HBO miniseries Chernobyl was released. Aside from its noteworthy Dark Ambient soundtrack, a salient feature of the miniseries was its focus on the pride and narcissism of the leaders of the Soviet Union.
The series features a number of wise comments by its characters. Each character handles the situation in a different way. After the accident, some characters deny the severity of the explosion. They remain committed to the grandiose ideals of the Soviet Union.
Anatoly Dyatlov supervised the safety test that led to the accident. There were several indicators that something was wrong, but Dyatlov was eager to be promoted and receive more power within the Soviet Union and he violated the safety regulations. Dyatlov absorbed the grandiose ideals of the Soviet Union within his own identity. Dyatlov thought the AZ-5 button could cancel the safety test in the event of an error, but so many things had gone wrong that the button functioned as a detonator. The impatient Dyatlov was more concerned about power and recognition than about safety, and in the miniseries he performs like an Edgelord in his interactions with other workers in the control room at Chernobyl.
Dyatlov was, however, part of the narcissism which governed the USSR, and which may have started with Stalin. The pride of the leaders of the Soviet Union made them reluctant to admit to any flaw within the designs of a ‘perfect’ society – this was seen in the length of time it took authorities to finally evacuate the town of Pripyat.
The leaders of the Soviet Union were like narcissistic parents who were trying to maintain a flawless image behind the Iron Curtain, and the sinful pride of Stalin culminated in Anatoly Dyatlov.
Valery Legasov – chief of the commission investigating the disaster – worked hard on finding answers and on telling the truth about flaws which were also present in other power plants. Legasov eventually killed himself.
“This is what has always set our people apart. A thousand years of  sacrifice in our veins. And every generation must know its own suffering. I spit on the people who did this, and I curse the price we have to pay. But I'm making my peace with it, now you make yours. And go into that water. Because it must be done." – Boris Shcherbina
The character Boris Shcherbina does not blame, but accepts responsibility for his future. The narcissism and pride of the leaders of the Soviet Union resulted in a disaster which poisoned a continent, and radiation became a plague. According to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was a turning point which resulted in the collapse of the Soviet Union a few years later.
The citizens of the Soviet Union were in some ways like the children of narcissistic parents. Some will deny what the parents did to them, some will defend the parents, some will seek answers, some will be angered. Some will blame, some will seek solutions. But such is the human condition – that people should constantly strive to learn from the past, in order to improve the future.
The sinful pride of the fathers has struck humanity down with a plague. It is The Omen.
The constant search for a cure – and for identity – is a proactive way of making peace with the narcissistic governments, systems and families which dealt us the problems we have been tasked to solve in our lives.
"Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’
Through a world mysterious and vague [...]
Walking through the cities of the plague [...]
In the last outback, at the world’s end"
- Bob Dylan"
Written by:
Anonymous, for Collegium Wikia