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Jump back to quoted post20 May 2013, 13:25 PMHypnotoad

The reason why there is so much hatred towards Russia is because your people have ignored or denied the criminality of your past (the hatred is not because there IS criminality in Russian history), or even worse justified these crimes as somehow necessary in the fight against Nazism.

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I also never pretended to know what's in the minds of every Russian, but I know what the school history textbooks in Russia say and I know the attitudes/commentary of the Russian government in regards to the war so I don't have to have lived in Russia to make the observations that I make, just as you don't need to live in America to know that most Americans are technically obese.

Jump back to quoted post20 May 2013, 13:25 PMHypnotoad

Blaming Soviet crimes on Stalin (as Putin does in that clip) is exactly what i'm talking about, the Soviet system was criminal before and after Stalin (for instance Solzhenitsyn's key argument against the Soviet system was that Stalin merely amplified a system already established by Lenin and Dzherzinsky) so using Stalin's legacy as a scapegoat to offload blame for Soviet Russian crimes is bullshit.

Jump back to quoted post20 May 2013, 13:25 PMHypnotoad

i'm only protesting this Russian denial/belligerence about the past on what should be a day of rememberance.

Jump back to quoted post19 May 2013, 14:57 PMGuderian

Russia's paid propaganda destabilizes contries? How exactly?

I will just say that every country that has the power to do HAS ALWAYS and WILL ALWAYS try to extend its reach and gain benefit from it. It is obviously the most common and popular thing to do these days - spit at the Soviet Union. But politics have always been like that. Be it Germany with WW2, or the US with Iraq/Panama/Grenada, or the Brits stealing from and oppressing Indians, or European colonies in Africa, or Poles invading Russia long before the USSR existed or mongols conquering most of Asia, or Italians gassing Abyssynian tribesmen. Before you start the usual "omg soviet empire of evil" rant - be FAIR, and try to remember someone NOT extending their influence when they HAVE THE MEANS to do it.

And obviously, as far as the actual holiday goes - it is meant for those who gave their lives defending their homeland and has nothing to do with political bullshit being spread through it by this or that politician.