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Sharu on 09 September 2015
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Well, my opinion about America was different at different times, just as any Russian I think!
1. In 80s USA was everybody's dream. With a start of Gorbachev and Perestroika in 85 it was a massive propaganda thru all communist/USSR media about how good American Way is. You great movies of 80-s was also helping. We were happy to be friends with USA at last and to live together in a better world. Even destroying our own country for this.
2. In the start of 90-s smth started to bother. We destroyed USSR by ourselves. Let East Germany go. Let East Europe go. Our lifelevel falled down. A lot of production stopped. No work for people, salaries down. We were filled by western food. Cheap, in great colorful packing. But worse quality than we had in USSR.
3. Middle of 90-s. USA and EU start financing and supporting muslim terrorists in Chechnia. People start asking whats going on? If we are friends, why you supporting and training terrorists on our territory?
4. End of 90-s. Yugoslavia. USA and EU bombed a slavic country for no real reason. (Even now this results with a muslim refugees from Kosovo). That I think was a final signal to stop and think - are USA is a real friend or you were cheating and betrayed us?
5. Then Putin came and start gathering country back. Building productions, starting agriculture almost from scratch. And the better we live - the worse things we heard about us in Western media. Which is just ridiculous.

Saying about people. I don't have a lot of Americans to talk. But those we speak in a real world was all very good and nice persons. Just like any simple people around the world, I think.

And on USA culture (mostly movies as we see it from Russia). It had its golden times in 80-s/90-s. Then... I have a feeling that smth had broken inside. Its hard to explain.
You know, in the old movies I saw Americans who are happy. Who can overcome problems. Who are sure that they are living right way and doing right things.
And in modern ones - its a bunch of worried people, buried under life/psychological problems and having no real purpose to live.