[buwaya]

Comment by buwaya None of these Russian issues are unique of course. You will find some things like this, even in a more extreme state in some cases, elsewhere. All this stuff exists in gradations anywhere you care to look. The critical issues here however is the financial disconnect between society in general and the sources of wealth. Most countries live off the sweat of their brows, more or less, the productivity of their people. Russia can ignore that, as can a few other resource-extraction states. That creates unique social structures.

[kiryandil]

This is rich, coming from a Spaniard...

[BobL]

You win, I won’t move there. Nor will I support military aid to Russia in support of the Ukraine war.

Consider me neutral.

[DesertRhino]

The coolest manners thing about them is in theater seating. As someone moves down the row to or from their seat, they face the person as they move past, instead of putting their ass in your face.

It’s the little things.

[Kazan]

Your obsession with, biased toward and extreme hatred of Russia and Russians is just as vile as racism and anti-Semitism. It’s moral sickness.

[wildcard_redneck]

You live in n a glass house crocodile..... just a few hundred years ago the tribes of the Philippines were cannibal savages. I'm sure there were even some Russians helping other Europeans to bring civilization to that dark corner of the world.

Philippine Pre-Colonial Headhunting
The practice of headhunting played a significant role in the pre-colonial history of the Philippines, with various ethnic groups engaging in this tradition for a multitude of reasons. In northern Luzon, ethnic groups such as the Ifugao, Bontoc, Ilongot, Sagada Igorot, Kalingas, and Apayaos practiced headhunting as a cultural custom. This practice involved the taking of an enemy's head as an act of revenge or to bring glory and good luck to a warrior and their village.
https://sinaunangpanahon.com/philippine-pre-colonial-headhunting/#google_vignette

[Right_Wing_Madman]

[SoConPubbie]

And yet they’re more moral than the US where adoptions are concerned. They won’t allow preverts to adopt children.

[NorseViking]

The video is a bunch of baloney made to entertain confirmation bias. None of the things mentioned is unique or at least more typical to the Russians compared to Europeans.

[Gene Eric]

nothing, absolutely nothing will ever surpass the romantic Russian classical era — so, I’m inclined to keep an open mind regarding the dynamics of Russian culture

[MotorCityBuck]

The Russians like Cornflakes and so should you….🐸

https://youtu.be/TLwc9lbJlIQ

[roving]

From watching some crash videos, there are the worst drivers in the world.

[daniel1212]

Ukraine leans Left, to its own hurt, and like Russia, corruption abounds. But only one has missiles pointed at the US, and seeks dominion (bad), and yet opposes Western ideology (good) -thus the Left of the West opposes its competition, and both basically oppose evangelical expression that its state church or ideological masters oppose.

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.