“The Russian is Asiatic, with no regard for human life, barbarian and chronic drunk” General George S. Patton, well known FR “Ukrainian contingent” member.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian biggest mistake | Ukraine takes more ground with new tactics, lodi90 wrote: “The Russian is Asiatic, with no regard for human life, barbarian and chronic drunk” General George S. Patton, well known FR “Ukrainian contingent” member.
So one man's comment in 1945 defines reality in 2023 for you?
Patton's remark in 1945, that Russians are Asian and therefore drunkards etc., seems to be all the instruction you've had on Russians. Allow me to bring you up to speed.
In 1945, Patton was referring to the broken citizens of the Soviet Union, a cruel system in which defeated persons who could not aspire to happiness often drank and smoked, if they could afford it, to relieve their misery.
In 2010, a hairdresser now living in the US, who was originally a psychologist in the former USSR, said that looking back, she can't believe that she used to wake up in the morning and start the day by drinking vodka, and continue to imbibe as needed throughout the day, just to face life in the USSR. It wasn't the presence or lack of indoor plumbing that caused this despair, it was the Politburo and it's capacity to drain life out of every moment of living.
Those advocating for the Ukraine on FR continue to portray modern day Russia as the USSR of 1945, at least they do so when they are not trying to paint Putin as Hitler. Things have changed in the past 70+ years and the fact that you need to reference the failed USSR to try to substantiate your world view exposes the ethnic hatred that often underlies pro Ukrainian posts on FR. I've read a pro Uk post that insisted that Russians were pigs and should be shot; I would have thought only Hitler signed on to that type of ethnic cleansing.