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Originally Posted by svin
Well, Soviet regime wasn't friendly towards Europeans. So that's understandable.
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Well, there may be several reasons why people buy the anti-Russian propaganda. One of the reasons is this one you just mentioned. Many people still see Russia as USSR, not realizing that the Angloamerica-EU is the new USSR, but much stronger, more cunning and more sophisticated than the defunct USSR.
The other reason is all this twaddle about liberal democracy. It has become one of the "sacred cows" of the modern West, it is enough only to point out at some country as being "tyranny" or having an "authoritarian government" or not being "enough democratic", in order to create a general negative perception of the country in question.
The point is this "sacred" liberal democracy is nowhere fully "democratic" nor fully "liberal". For example, isn't it so utterly ridiculous that a country like Britain, which has such a blatantly undemocratic institution as monarchy and the House of the Lords, to reproach to Russia for its allegedly "defective democracy"?