Reading the article, I first was thinking it was a joke, a parody on the events, until at "Comments and Responses" I realized you may have been serious.
Drinking habits of Russians have changed considerably in last 30 years, and you would see multiply more drunk people in towns of Sweden than in Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, or elsewhere in Russia. Golden children parties do not represent Russia.
I regret to say, the opinion given in the article is a point of view of an U.S. citizen who barely knows that Ukraine is somewhere beyond the waters, and who has become an expert on Russia by watching Hollywood movies. Regarding history drafted in the article, there is even less relevance.
The article mixes quite many things into an indigestible soup. It would take days to discuss claim by claim, but first - you fully mix up Russia and Soviet Union. Stalin was a Georgian, Brezhnev was Ukrainian - where are then Russians there? Lenin was a special weapon used by Germans - I hope you know that part of history at least, about his forced transport with wagonload of gold in a sealed wagon through Finland.
Your claim "WW II Germans became complacent, peace-loving" brings about a song of an U.S. comedian about Germany - "Sleep, baby, sleep (.....) we taught them a lesson in 1918 and they barely bothered us since then...". Well, the song finishes "let´s make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon".
Think of the NATO destruction and displacement of people of Syria, Iraq, etc., now also Ukraine. For what? Oh yes - for spreading democracy, and for keeping high prices of petrol, plus grabbing industry and lands wherever the U.S. thep. If in doubt, then ask how many companies in Germany are not in the ownership of U.S. funds.
And indeed your summary " My honest assessment: the Russians are barbarians" is adorable! Other nations may say the same about the U.S. - "exterminate the natives, and create the Land of the Brave"! Where are now Cherokee who lived in Carolina, where are Mohicans, and dozens other nations and tribes who treated much worse than Cherokee? Yes do speak about "holocaust" in China, just in the same line mention the millions of children you kill every year in U.S. through abortion and abortive pills (aka "contraceptives"). And you call Russians a "barbarian nation"?
Reading the article, I first was thinking it was a joke, a parody on the events, until at "Comments and Responses" I realized you may have been serious.
Drinking habits of Russians have changed considerably in last 30 years, and you would see multiply more drunk people in towns of Sweden than in Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, or elsewhere in Russia. Golden children parties do not represent Russia.
I regret to say, the opinion given in the article is a point of view of an U.S. citizen who barely knows that Ukraine is somewhere beyond the waters, and who has become an expert on Russia by watching Hollywood movies. Regarding history drafted in the article, there is even less relevance.
The article mixes quite many things into an indigestible soup. It would take days to discuss claim by claim, but first - you fully mix up Russia and Soviet Union. Stalin was a Georgian, Brezhnev was Ukrainian - where are then Russians there? Lenin was a special weapon used by Germans - I hope you know that part of history at least, about his forced transport with wagonload of gold in a sealed wagon through Finland.
Your claim "WW II Germans became complacent, peace-loving" brings about a song of an U.S. comedian about Germany - "Sleep, baby, sleep (.....) we taught them a lesson in 1918 and they barely bothered us since then...". Well, the song finishes "let´s make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon".
Think of the NATO destruction and displacement of people of Syria, Iraq, etc., now also Ukraine. For what? Oh yes - for spreading democracy, and for keeping high prices of petrol, plus grabbing industry and lands wherever the U.S. thep. If in doubt, then ask how many companies in Germany are not in the ownership of U.S. funds.
And indeed your summary " My honest assessment: the Russians are barbarians" is adorable! Other nations may say the same about the U.S. - "exterminate the natives, and create the Land of the Brave"! Where are now Cherokee who lived in Carolina, where are Mohicans, and dozens other nations and tribes who treated much worse than Cherokee? Yes do speak about "holocaust" in China, just in the same line mention the millions of children you kill every year in U.S. through abortion and abortive pills (aka "contraceptives"). And you call Russians a "barbarian nation"?