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by darthrupert 1275 days ago
Do we really need to think of Russia as being a country of utter regressed animals who are capable of nothing but the worst ideas?

Are they really comic book evil?

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No not at all. Russians are quite lovely.

Americans aren't monsters despite their monstrous acts in Korea and Vietnam.

Super powers gonna super power and mostly that means stomp all over unfortunate people.

In addition to being nice, Russians should grow a spine. The American people of 70s were massively better than current Russians: they stopped the Vietnam War by protesting against it.

Where are the massive Russian peotests?

The American people of 70s didn't face violence, torture, and over a decade of prison for protesting.

It is not a fair comparison, the ship has long sailed for Russian protest movement, when rest of the world was turning the blind eye for the past decade.

Vietnam war lasted 10 years.

Let's see if Russians might turn things around before the Americans did!

I don't expect so but it's in part because by shunning the Russia people we've weakened their ability to resist their government. It's ridiculous that the first response from social media was to block Russia's and now be a conduit for the average Russia to see the truth about the war.