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by dvfjsdhgfv 1945 days ago
Unfortunately, the Russians have a very long history of bad rulers. These rules were constantly fighting with enemies outside and inside. Common people were suffering because of this, century after century. They were rebelling, time after time, and finally one of these rebellions succeeded, and the last Tzar was killed. Unfortunately, it turned out the new leaders are not any better, and again millions of Russians died.

So whenever someone conflates Russian rulers with Russian themselves, I feel really bad about it. Russian people are in no way different from any other nation, they are nice and friendy. If anything, I'd say they have several smart people and scientists vritually unkonwn in the West, which is a pity to both sides.