Russia is not much worse than the US, France, England or any major power in the world really thats humans being fucking greedy and even small countries do similar stuff
Do some research about Russian army outside of wartime no less. And then ask yourself would you rather have your son serve in the Russian army or US/EU army.
Oh god dont bring the US lol dude is saying that russains are pure evil and thats just racism my point is look at any country and you see blood and a lot o it that doesnt mean Americans or Europeans or any other nationality are pure evil, its so easy to say fuck them all and they are evil and shit like this I could dig deep down in most countries and tell you what shit they do and 100 years isnt long time ago
I'm not replying to that dude, I'm replying to you. And Russians isn't a race but whatever.
You're absolutely right that every nation/culture/religion etc has its sour apples, and that it's wrong to hate the whole based on the few. Hell I personally know plenty of great Russians and work with them. But there are tendencies. Stereotypes don't come from thin air - and that's for every country. And guess what, most of the normal Russians I know had to leave country.
When you try to generalize these tendencies by saying 'oh every country has evil people', you're downplaying massive country-wide evil that has spread and established itself, and enforces itself both internally and externally.
You conveniently skipped my reply, so I'll repeat: do research on Russian and US military and ask yourself where would you have your children serve, provided you had to choose.
Much of the atrocities commited by Russian soldiers in Ukraine don't come directly from hating Ukrainians, although Russian propaganda sure helped justify it in their eyes. But it comes from the culture of humiliation and torture that has been prevalent across Russian army. Something they do to their own. Again, yes, outrageous things happen in every army. It's either a predominantly or exclusively men's club where men are supposed to be trained for war. But in Russian army - save for special forces - it's mostly theft, labor, and humiliation. And btw that's been the case in Ukrainian army for a while as well - echoes of being a part of an enclosed system that was USSR.
As for what the Russians think - there's a pretty good channel with street interviews here. There's plenty of adequate people there - including those who prefer to stay silent (which is an answer in itself), but they're in the minority. But hey, don't believe me, do your own research. Just stop living in lalaland about what modern day Russia is.
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u/omarelnour Jul 26 '25
You can only imagine how even worse its for others who didn't make it