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They've been an incredibly brutal imperialist country for centuries now; the Soviet Union was just more of the same. I'm not saying it's a genetic feature of all Russians, but something is clearly fucked up about the way they run their country when they can't go few decades without committing literal genocide

EDIT: Some Russian genocides and ethnic cleansings over the years

Just to drive the point home, here's a list of just the easiest to find genocides and ethnic cleansings perpetrated by Russians that I found with a minimum of searching based on what I remember from history. Note that there's some overlap between these, so you can't just sum the "victims" column to get a total victim count.

There is a book "Putin Country" on how rural Russia is every bit as fundamentalist in wanting the murdering of considered-reason, diverse-thinking, objectivity, etc, as the republican rural US is: it's the same pattern, or antipattern.

Shit-education, combined with anti-intellect culture, combined with gang-style culture/values ( our gang wins, NEVER whistleblow, or we'll ALL murder you for betraying the herd/gang!! ), and you produce such result.

The Mongol Yoke seems to have entrenched corruption, sociopathy, nihilism, etc, into Russian culture.

the Sovyet Soyuz ( union, I think ) Socialist .. I don't know what the P ( which is an R, in our alphabet ) stood-for, in CCCP .. was continuing the abuse that had already been going on for ages..

and when you prevent uprightness from living, in a population, there are consequences, whether in the Eastern hemisphere or the Western, the Northern or the Soutern, it's only appearances that differ, not the fundamental self/others/Nature/LivingSpirit set of relationships..

Gangs work to murder-out all which would compete against them, whether US, Russian, Chinese, Arab, Israeli, it doesn't matter.

Abuse's supremacy produces the perpetuation of abuse's supremacy.

This is why the only method that could have worked, in Palestine, was having an absolutely neutral government ( which Hamas would never have tolerated, nor would Israel ), and to force absolute neutrality & properness, for a hard minimum of 2+ generations, until the grudge-enforcing generations were all retired-out-from all leverage & authority.

No other method could have worked.

The idiocy of people pretending that "no bullets fly, therefore this is what Peace means!", and indulging in incredulity when grudge-violence erupts..

How can any self-respecting person stomach that dishonesty, I don't know.

Humankind doesn't have the spine to earn real integrity, and real-integrity is what it'd take to clean-up our own countries, let-alone derelict-abandoned countries, ruled by organized-crime..

Notice that the White-Blue-White Russians are city people, not rural: it's cultural, same as in the US with democrats being city slickers.

it takes multiple generations of concerted, strategically-coherent force, to break the ignorance/prejudice/ideology-additions that rule our world's people, including us.

IF any remnant of humankind survives this century, THEN maybe they'll succeed in earning such integrity, & be able to continue living..

that's a big if, though, now, with the global TANTRUM/POGROM that humankind's setting-up to "deal with" God not catering-to our toddler-unconscious..

Sorry for the rambling, but it's all inter-related, and you can't fix anything in isolation, no matter which country it's in..

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