Thank you for your thoughtful, accurate and brave posts.
I am an American of Russian, Irish, and Spanish ancestry. The way some Freepers denigrate Russia and Russians is infuriating, to say the least.
The Cold War Brigade, as I call them, are trapped in the past. They still regard Russia as the “Soviet Union” and that Russians are “subhuman savages”, as that “lovely” Freeper described us.
There is so much irrational, violent, bigoted hatred against Russians among certain Freepers that I believe that, if they could, they would re-create Hitler’s Final Solution against everyone with Russian blood. I believe some would even like to exterminate all Eastern Orthodox believers, despite the fact that the Eastern Orthodox Church has been around MUCH longer than their sects.
My statement may have sounded incredibly harsh but I am constantly blown away by the pure HATRED of anything or anyone Russian. They regard Russians as worthless or subhuman.
It’s funny that these certain posters never spew such vile, bigoted, violent vitriol against China, Saudi Arabia or Mexico. Those nations are a much bigger threat to the US than Russia and are actively working to destroy us.
Russia isn’t perfect, far from it, but neither is the US and the West. The West, under Soros’ influence, is spreading the poison of political correctness and Globalism worldwide. Germany is at the forefront of the Islamization of the West and the implementation of the Kalergi Plan, which is, simply, White Genocide. Personally, I regard Merkel’s Germany as an enemy, not an ally.
I actually applaud Russia for protecting their children from the gaystapo and other destructive Western influences. Pedophilia is deeply frowned upon in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet is becoming mainstream in the West.
Anti-Russians even side with the Chechens against Russia, which is ironic because the Chechens are the textbook definition of savages.
I’m sure the Anti-Russians cheered the terrorists at Beslan when they were raping, torturing and slaughtering Russian children. After all, in their minds, the children were just Russian savages, so no great loss.
Putin is no angel, not even close, but at least he loves his country and cares about the survival of Russia. But, to some people, that makes him evil. SMH.
I will be blasted for this but I applaud Russia’s fight against ISIS in Syria. Russia and Syria have been close allies for years and Assad asked for their help. OTOH, many people forget that our very own John McCain helped start ISIS.
I have always regarded myself as American and never really thought much about my ancestry. That is until recent events. The media’s tired “Russia, Russia, Russia!!!” narrative and the Anti-Russian bigotry from some posters have made me even prouder to be of Russian ancestry. In fact, I’m much prouder of my Russian ancestry than my Irish because I hate modern Ireland. Ireland is an EU, Globalist, Pro-Muslim hellhole and most Irish I’ve spoken with hate Americans.
Sorry for the long rant but I just wanted to thank you for speaking the hard truth for actually respecting Russians as human beings.
I was also an Engineer with a wide and solid foundation in the physical sciences, so objective observation came early and easily.
From that point on, I easily concluded that the problem was Communism per se, not "Russians".
Further investigation (History) revealed that The Marx (unworkable) Economic Philosophy of Communism was weaponized in Western Europe (primarily France, England and Germany) and sent to Russia to compromise Russian military strength and population advantage.
In short, Communism was used as a weapon of mass destruction against Russians to prevent Russia from being the deciding factor in the outcome of constant European wars.
It didn't take long after figuring that out to deduce that Russians themselves were just normal people like everybody else.
It might be worth noting that Russians did not have the opportunity to inform themselves about Communism because there was no track record of it in 1917, and Lenin sold 'em out. No other Communist group can claim the facts weren't there, and no other Communist group has effectively ended Communist rule.
Russians? They're just like everybody else except for one thing, they pretty much got rid of Communism.
“I actually applaud Russia for protecting their children from the gaystapo and other destructive Western influences. Pedophilia is deeply frowned upon in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet is becoming mainstream in the West.”
The western media downplays the fact that Obama, against Putin’s direct request, unilaterally met with the “LGBT rights” representatives in St. Petersburg, who were actually the pornographers spreading the filth that Russia was trying to stop. Obama went on and on about their human rights and they should have freedom of expression, etc.
Putin then banned Obama from ever again entering Russia. (Later extended to Obama’s acquaintances, see http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37957097). Obama countered by issuing sanctions (ostensibly in retaliation for the Ukraine situation) aimed not at Russia directly, but against those in the Russian parliament who had been sponsors of the anti-pornography law.
Obama was an arrogant international asshole of the worst variety; we really cannot fault Russia for responding accordingly.