Posted on 01/28/2025 9:03:14 PM PST by buwaya
"Why are Russians often seen as amoral, brutal, or ruthless?" In this video, I tackle this intriguing question from a subscriber's perspective as a writer born in the USSR. Join me as I uncover the deep social and historical forces that shape Russian behavior, exploring the layers of the social pyramid, the influence of state power, and its impact on morality and actions. From loyalty to authority to the importance of personal connections, I dive into the unique dynamics of Russian culture and social structures. Get ready for an eye-opening journey into the complexities behind the perceptions.
Video Chapters:
00:00 Understanding Russian Morality 01:24 Russian Cornucopia 04:15 Social Pyramid 12:41 Modern Russian Nobility 15:56 Morals of the Russian Elite 20:13 Propaganda Queen: Margarita Simonyan 22:34 Why Are Russians So Rude?
So the sins of the past means those born today are also responsible?
Does that mean that all Germans today can not speak of anything moral because of nazi germany past.
How about Islamic people and the 800 years of invasion, conquest, slavery, and murder their forefathers committed?
Italians for Roman conquests?
Westerners for colonization and slavery?
United States in treatment of native Americans, Japanese internment….?
And last but not least Russians for the atrocities committed during czarist regimes, Lenin amd Marx’s, and Soviet Union where millions were starved, murdered and sent to work camps?
Very selective in your outrage
The author of the video, Elvira Bary, is a Russian lady. If you disagree with her points, take it up with her.
How right you are. It's as bad as TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) in this country.
Thank goodness I don't have misfits like that as a neighbor. They'd be complaining about the way I part my hair, how I cut my grass, and so many other controlling obsessions that frankly are none of their business.
Why in the world should I worry about a Ruskie who is on the other side of the planet? Why does it matter, and why is it my business? Uh? Simple mind - simple people.
Those "cannibal savages" who fought, and the many endured the Bataan Death March, including the thousands who died, are far better men than you can ever hope to be.
Take your bigotry and stick it where the sun don't shine.
I am not anti-Filipino, I was just calling out your little buddy buwaya’s anti-Slavic racism to his arrogant face. It does he paint Russians with a broad brush of racism he is also anti-American as well. It’s the height of hypocrisy to criticize the Russians for being conquered by the Mongols 800 years avoiding when his ancestors just 200 years ago were eating people alive?
Also, what kind of mentally deficient dweeb has a fictional comic book organization as his handle? Grow up.
Awesome. The place smells better already.
Just noting that Spaniards have little room to attack other cultures over past transgressions. See - the Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of the New World and the Spanish Civil War. You're welcome.
The author of the video, Elvira Bary, is a Russian lady.
ACKCHYUALLY, the author of the video is Elvira Baryakina. I have most of her books. You're welcome, again. 
You indulge in playground level name calling and then say “grow up”?
I’ve was on this forum for 17 years before you joined, and will waste no more time with you.
Actually I’ve been in this form since 2010 under the handle WMarshal so you have only been here 8 more years than me. I am fine with you wasting no more time on me because, frankly, you’re an insufferable, virtue-signaling, leftist child.
I am not watching the vid, but the author(?) posts this:
@MomoBagel 10 hours ago
I live in Poland and I am a Pole. We have different historical backgrounds with the Russians. They believe that they liberated us from the Germans during World War II, we believe that they first enslaved us (they invaded Poland on September 17) and then graciously allowed us to liberate ourselves (two armies formed from Poles deported to Siberia), and then occupied us for 40 years. There is no family in Poland to whom the Russians did not do some harm. So it's hard for us to like Russia as a country. It is a constant threat to us (and also to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and all who border them.) When Putin attacked Ukraine, I was convinced that this fear was long behind us, that Russia had become such a democratic country that people in the Russian establishment would convince him that this was some kind of madness. Oh what a fool I was. Russia had not become the least bit Western or democratic. The fact that they allowed European and American companies to open offices in Moscow and pretend that this city glittering with wealth was a gateway to great cooperation was a sham, which they kept up willingly by allowing their oligarchs to buy superyachts or soccer clubs in London. At the time, they did absolutely nothing for their people.
Often at my work we talk about how Russia's leaders can treat their people like this. It's unimaginable to us. But it works both ways. How can people allow the government to treat them this way. There must be some kind of social contract between them. In Poland, people want from the government that it should not bother them too much to do business, that local governments should take care of communications, roads, that public money should be properly spent, that there should be cheap electricity and fuel, that the level of education should be high, that they should live well.
Russians have a different social contract and want different things from government. They want Russia to be great. That's enough for them. To have someone tell them this all the time. They can pick food out of a dumpster and support Putin all the time. They never threw off the shackles, the transformation to democracy we expected from Gorbachev and Yeltsin did not happen. There was a return to the way things were. I saw an interview with Navalny, who, despite his difference in views with Putin, also believed that Russia should absolutely be a world empire and the only problem that stands in the way is corruption. Navalny wanted to go the way of Western corporations. Corruption is a cancer for Russia and hope for us. Because they, if they have the opportunity, will not back down from anything.
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