Quote: (10-19-2014 10:04 AM)Chaos Wrote:
I hear you Akula. I agree in most what you say.
But where in this thread is anyone saying about Russians having a grind against Germans? I never heard a Russian inside or outside Russia say a bad thing about Germany or a German.
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Despite being 'warned' about it when I went over by some ABC News special about the "rise of nationalism in Russia' which turned out to be utter garbage.
ABC News special......
Yeah, I know they are exaggerating the nationalism in Russia bigtime with all kinds of videos when some someone is kicking the hell out of some Central Asian guy and they make it look like that stuff is happening every minute.
But I disagree that it's total utter garbage. Putin has never been as popular like right now and pathriotism and nationalism is growing stronger than ever.
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The Russians were probably the biggest reason the Germans lost in WWII contrary to popular Western traditional thought which has the US as the main 'victors.'
I suppose you mean American traditional thought.
At least I was not taught in school that US were the main victors.
I don't know exactly who you are targeting as PC bluepill commenters but I would appreciate if you could namedrop who you are talking about and not refering to "them" and "many" and "some".
Chaos I know you have extensive experience traveling throughout Russia so it was not aimed at you as I value and respect your knowledge and commentary. I also understand where you are coming from for the most part. And when I referred to the traditional view on "who won WWII" yeah I meant the traditional American point of view (where we were always taught we won it all!!
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But many other posts seemed indicative of people who have never been to Russia or understand very well, or, worse, believe what their country's mainstream press is telling them at the moment (which is mostly highly negative due to the current situation in Ukraine, but also largely wrong and biased, especially due to the "Putin Hating" mainstream media frenzy. Hillary Clinton did compare Putin's actions to what Hitler did mind you).
The posts that struck me as off or just too exaggerated were things like these:
"The popularity of neo-Nazism in Russia and Eastern Europe never ceases to puzzle me." (what "Popularity" in Russia?)
"I think for many today, worshiping Nazis or Hitler is a way of rebelling against Communism, multiculturalism, etc. " (Many?)
"I also see this admiration for Nazis as a great success with regards to their PR and look. (ok, but where is all this "admiration? Are you implying it's widespread in Russia? again it's not, not even close)
I guess when I read through the thread it smacked me that the tone had turned into a general acceptance that in Russia there is a growing Nazi problem - lookout!!" Nothing could be further from the truth. Maybe some have strong ethnocentric tendencies (gopniks), but that's not unique to Russia.
Furthermore, as I said in my earlier post, the current situation in Russia, where there is indeed more nationalist propaganda, in fact actually would make them less likely to be fans of "Nazis" simply because the boogeyman that is constantly put on the Russian national news is the supposed Nazi factions in Ukraine hurting ethnic Russians there. And as one poster said Putin has repeatedly spoken out against hooliganism and any sort of "neo-Nazism". So the whole premise is not only false due to history (you know how the Russian lost millions fighting the Nazis) but also to what's currently going on there on account of the Ukraine situation.
So I don't think there is a "Neo-Nazi movement anywhere in Russia and frankly it's way less prominent than the mainstream media say it is elsewhere. It's just a scaremongering tactic to get us to all stay in line and worry about something and also a way of morally equivocating the transgressions of what some others have done (for example, what Islamic immigrants have done throughout the rest of Europe on the anti-Semitism front (i.e. Malmo, the stuff that's gone on in France, etc.). So when people complain the mainstream press on always pointing out some fringe neo-Nazi movement somewhere to 'morally equivocate' even if the #s of attacks and transgressions are nowhere near the same).
Edit: Maybe these girls are mostly from Ukraine?