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Di you like Russia?

Yes, I love it! 218 35.68%
 
No, I hate it. 144 23.57%
 
Russia is strange... 130 21.28%
 
Don't know yet, curious ... 67 10.97%
 
Don't know and don't care. 45 7.36%
 
Total:604

He comes here and insults the whole race, and speak about "despicable" Russians.
"Look who's talking", one would say :)



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http://www.euronews.com/2014/05/29/russia-forms-epoch-making-trading-bloc-with-belarus-and-kazakhstan/

The Eurasian Economic Union – which follows years of tense and difficult negotiations – guarantees the free transit of goods, services, capital and workforces and coordinates policy for the members’ financial systems, but it stops short of introducing a single currency.

The treaty forging the Eurasian Economic Union will come into force in January once it has passed the formality of being approved by the three former Soviet republics’ parliaments.


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Again good news for Russia.



I hate Russia for it's current government.
I love Russia for it's artistic creations throughout the ages.
I am indifferent to the common Russian man or women; I don't know him or her.



mai said:
lehamsy said:

I'm not saying that you lived in paradise with the Russian occupation, but the terrible things the US did to Latin America are way more complex to the simplistic point of view you have. The puppet leaders, the whole brainwash thing, and the other things Russia did to you, they are not so different from what the US did to us. 

He simplifies everything, that'd be his general way of thinking. Not so far time ago, if I'm not msitaken it was him, he shunned the topic of Polish occupation of Czechoslovakia, because I assume it contradicts the idea of self-victimization. Big fish eats smaller fish, that's understandable even though not justifiable, but historical self-victimization is a sign of a helpless looser, counter-productive and destructive for one's mind.


What Polish occupation of Czechoslovakia? No such thing has ever happened, you really are making up stuff and should stop doing it.



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lehamsy said:

Really dude? That's what you think of Latin America. That's a cheap answer. Do you know who Pinochet, Stroessner, Videla, Rodriguez Lara, and so on, are? They are all dictadors, maybe you should investigate which country financed their coups just to stop communism in the region. You should investigate which country supported their regimes eventhough all of them killed thousands of innocent people. Which country forced neoliberalism as an economic system to the region and destroyed the economies of many countries. Which country took advantage of these puppet leaders to send euro-american companies to take possession of the region's resources. God, in Bolivia they even privatized rainwater. In my country, Ecuador, they started to extract oil, but then we returned to democracy, and when the president Jaime Roldós tried to nationalize oil, they killed him. During the entire XX century they used military force to invade countries and to  establish of military bases in the region. In my own country we had a military base until 2009. The World Bank forced our governments to modify our educational systems just to teach us since we were kids that we were poor, and that we couldn't do anything to take back our resources. 

I'm not saying that you lived in paradise with the Russian occupation, but the terrible things the US did to Latin America are way more complex to the simplistic point of view you have. The puppet leaders, the whole brainwash thing, and the other things Russia did to you, they are not so different from what the US did to us. 


I'm not gonna lie, I'm no expert in LA issues. I plan to catch up as I hope to go for a yearly scholarship to Colombia next year :) But what I can say is that you should be thankful for any help with stopping communism. Seriously. That is a massive and priceless gift and you shouldn't just look past it.

I see that LA vs. Poland is much different things - behind the curtain works in LA vs. open terror and genocides, killing for your beliefs, show trials and demonstration executions and true to the wire brainwashing. Different kinds of evil. The main difference between us, is that we have managed to free ourselves and whatever bad has happened to us in the last 25 years is all our own fault. Finally.



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.

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Scisca said:

I'm not gonna lie, I'm no expert in LA issues. I plan to catch up as I hope to go for a yearly scholarship to Colombia next year :) But what I can say is that you should be thankful for any help with stopping communism. Seriously. That is a massive and priceless gift and you shouldn't just look past it.

I see that LA vs. Poland is much different things - behind the curtain works in LA vs. open terror and genocides, killing for your beliefs, show trials and demonstration executions and true to the wire brainwashing. Different kinds of evil. The main difference between us, is that we have managed to free ourselves and whatever bad has happened to us in the last 25 years is all our own fault. Finally.

I no longer want to continue that topic. I don't like to remember how was my country when I grew up, I'd better enjoy the present.  The only thing I'm going to say is that it was an interesting conversation the one we had. 



lehamsy said:

Well, yeah that's the history of mankind. That's why I can understand his hatred towards the Russian government and some Russian leaders, but what I can't understand is his hatred towards the Russians in general. In Latin America we know what the US did to us, we will not forget that, but we don't hate the country nor its citizens.

Anyways, Scisca has his own point of view, and I respect that even though I don't share it. 


I hate Russia as a country. I hate its government. Not by principle, but for what it's doing. It is returning to its empire of evil ways, bullying other countries around it, so it's only natural on my part.

When it comes to Russians - I didn't say I hated them, but I don't really like them (as a nation) and don't really want to have anything to do with them. I know and understand them much better than you ever will. I know and understand their wicked mentality, because they used to superimpose it on us for the second half of the last century. I know it's pathological and corrupt and I don't want to have anything to do with it. As I've said - Russians may be nice and funny to go out and drink vodka with or for a chit-chat, but nothing more. I do have quite a few friends from Russia and my stance is the result of my first hand experience, especially in the recent months. Russians aren't part of the Western culture - a fact that people in West just don't understand.

Moreover, I'm just not hypocritical. I hate their goverment, I hate their policy, hate what their country does. The vast majority of Russians on the other hand love what Putin is doing and they are supporting it wholeheartedly. What you're saying is like you do understand why people would hate Hitler, but can't understand them not liking the Germans (at that period of time obviously). Putin attacked Ukraine and conquered Crimea and the support for him skyrocketed, all Russians are proud of what he did - but you don't want to put any kind of blame on them? All just goes on Putin? I disagree with this. The Russians are just as responsible for what Putin is doing as he is. Their support just gave him the green light to continue his policy, just like the Germans gave it to Hitler back in the days.



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.

lehamsy said:

Scisca said:

I'm not gonna lie, I'm no expert in LA issues. I plan to catch up as I hope to go for a yearly scholarship to Colombia next year :) But what I can say is that you should be thankful for any help with stopping communism. Seriously. That is a massive and priceless gift and you shouldn't just look past it.

I see that LA vs. Poland is much different things - behind the curtain works in LA vs. open terror and genocides, killing for your beliefs, show trials and demonstration executions and true to the wire brainwashing. Different kinds of evil. The main difference between us, is that we have managed to free ourselves and whatever bad has happened to us in the last 25 years is all our own fault. Finally.

I no longer want to continue that topic. I don't like to remember how was my country when I grew up, I'd better enjoy the present.  The only thing I'm going to say is that it was an interesting conversation the one we had. 


Cool. As I've said - I'm no expert in LA issue and don't pretend to be one, so all I can do is agree with what you say on the matter :) So feel free to drop some knowledge (here or PM) if you feel like, cause as I've said - I plan to spend a year in LA and would like to know something about it before I go there.



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.

Scisca said:
mai said:
lehamsy said:

I'm not saying that you lived in paradise with the Russian occupation, but the terrible things the US did to Latin America are way more complex to the simplistic point of view you have. The puppet leaders, the whole brainwash thing, and the other things Russia did to you, they are not so different from what the US did to us. 

He simplifies everything, that'd be his general way of thinking. Not so far time ago, if I'm not msitaken it was him, he shunned the topic of Polish occupation of Czechoslovakia, because I assume it contradicts the idea of self-victimization. Big fish eats smaller fish, that's understandable even though not justifiable, but historical self-victimization is a sign of a helpless looser, counter-productive and destructive for one's mind.


What Polish occupation of Czechoslovakia? No such thing has ever happened, you really are making up stuff and should stop doing it.

Read this please.
http://www.debatepolitics.com/history/169189-polish-occupation-czechoslovakia-1938-year.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Czechoslovak_border_conflicts#Annexations_by_Poland_in_1938



Luck said:
I hate Russia for it's current government.
I love Russia for it's artistic creations throughout the ages.
I am indifferent to the common Russian man or women; I don't know him or her.

So I assume you know current government of Russia and its artistic creations well?