[adventured]

> Every statement that paints Russia in a positive light must be propaganda, right? This becomes tiring really fast.

A hyper violent fascist dictatorship (going on two decades now), with no human rights, where just proclaiming the war in Ukraine to be a war can get you 15 years in prison - yeah, there are a lot of very good reasons why Russia can't be painted in a positive light at present.

This is the same fascist dictatorship that just instructed its soldiers to intentionally genocide, rape and torture civilians by the tens of thousands in neighboring Ukraine.

We're talking about one of the most evil regimes of the last several hundred years. And it all derives directly from the culture of the country, just as the Soviet era did before it.

What positive light?

[dragonwriter]

> where just proclaiming the war in Ukraine to be a war can get you 15 years in prison

Well, to be fair, there are lots of indications that's about to change.

[adventured]

Yes, unfortunately it appears they're about to make it official.

[FpUser]

>"We're talking about one of the most evil regimes of the last several hundred years."

On that time scale Russia is no special at all. Atrocities committed by the West will make normal human want to loose sanity. For your own education and as a little sample just check what Belgium did in Congo. England had raped half of the world. The rest of the world was just as bad. Just less powerful. So please cut the bullshit.

Current Russian regime and their leaders deserve to be dealt with for sure. Personally I would dump Putin into meat grinder (not really because I am not a rabid dog he is but these are my feelings).

But to claim that Russia did this because of the rotten nature of Russian people in general - this is not true and is pure racism.