Well... Lazarevic is indeed a psycho killer, but Niko Bellic and Ocelot are really not that bad when you know their story... Actually, they are great characters

@Samus Aran

Most of us have gone to college, or as you call it university. Don't believe all your professors, man. Some of them love to promote their views and political beliefs in their classroom. Apparently you have just parroted his beliefs as you see him as an authority figure with credibility. He obviously has a problem with the U.S. and its policies. Don't be a blind sheep and follow whatever he says.

Wow.. what a surprise... Kasz is again bashing Russia on the first page. I wasnt expecting this at all.

Why do they make eastern people the bad guys? Its simple... its called propaganda, and unfortunatly its all over the world. Who lives in these countries knows the truth, and thank god I do Its all about being somebody who can only gather some information from tyhe internet about the above mentioned countries, or being somebody whom actually lives there and travels a lot...

Unfortunatly I doubt this atitude toward the east will change anytime soon, but one can hope If you trully want to see the reality get off your ass and travel a bit, maybe then you will be able to make a decision on your own, and dont fall for the western stupidity

There is an agreement on when they'll leave US.  They signed the agreement right before the US elections took place.  The troops are all supposed to be out by 2012.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/3461368/British-and-US-troops-to-leave-Iraq-by-2011.html

If you want to claim cultural reasons that seems to screw middle eastern people.  Afterall they have their own distinct culture yet have no continent.

hunter_alien said: Wow.. what a surprise... Kasz is again bashing Russia on the first page. I wasnt expecting this at all. Why do they make eastern people the bad guys? Its simple... its called propaganda, and unfortunatly its all over the world. Who lives in these countries knows the truth, and thank god I do Its all about being somebody who can only gather some information from tyhe internet about the above mentioned countries, or being somebody whom actually lives there and travels a lot... Unfortunatly I doubt this atitude toward the east will change anytime soon, but one can hope If you trully want to see the reality get off your ass and travel a bit, maybe then you will be able to make a decision on your own, and dont fall for the western stupidity

You want Russia to conquer the rest of the smaller baltic states again. Would rather one dictator control everything and be internationally relevent then have representation in government and be internationally irrelvent.

I'm not surprised you wouldn't be upset with what Russia is doing.

Well mostly.  There are some people like Hunter who are too young to remember how bad things were then and are drawn to the general "glory" that the USSR had as a super power.

It's why countries like the Ukraine and Georgia can't get into the EU soon enough.  They see it as the only way to save themselves from Russia again.

A) It's hard to bring down a statue that big safely.

B) Is it your suggestion that people in Iraq would rather go back to the days they were ruled by Sadam Hussein or some other dictator?  Because unlesse your answer is no, in no way was the US liberating the Iraqi's a lie.  Unless of course the US sets up a puppet government... but considering how much the new government has moved away from the US government this seems unlikely.  They're more likely to become friends with Iran then they are the US at this point.  Most of they key political figures are ones that were hiding out in Iran.

C) Terrorist orginzations will GREATLY loose their steam once the US are gone.  At least the ones like Al Queda.  Outside of that, all that will be left are the Bathists... who will be marginalized and run out of steam as time goes on.

All in all the Iraq war was a TERRIBLE idea.  I should know.  I was against the damn thing from the start.  I was one of very few people who was against it and who mistakenly though congress was too smart to give Bush the authority to enter Iraq.

They didn't however... there have been further mistakes since then... however i'm not so blind and idealouged enough to ignore the one positive that looks like it will come out of this whole thing.

I think that is why Hunter said you should go to East Europe if you have a chance.  It is true that their is a group of youngsters who look trough rosses glasses and think before the Berlin Wall fell everything was better.  Only their is a group of elder who lived before the Berlin Wall Fell who also miss the old days. They got their freedom but also many lost their jobs and didn't found an job anymore.  Some people prefer job above freedom. They got fucked by the state in those days but they feel the same now about their current state government/EU.

You find enough articles about it aswell:


Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an "illegitimate state." In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.

The life of Birger, a native of the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania in northeastern Germany, could read as an all-German success story. The Berlin Wall came down when he was 10. After graduating from high school, he studied economics and business administration in Hamburg, lived in India and South Africa, and eventually got a job with a company in the western German city of Duisburg. Today Birger, 30, is planning a sailing trip in the Mediterranean. He isn't using his real name for this story, because he doesn't want it to be associated with the former East Germany, which he sees as "a label with negative connotations."


And yet Birger is sitting in a Hamburg cafe, defending the former communist country. "Most East German citizens had a nice life," he says. "I certainly don't think that it's better here." By "here," he means reunified Germany, which he subjects to questionable comparisons. "In the past there was the Stasi, and today (German Interior Minister Wolfgang) Schäuble -- or the GEZ (the fee collection center of Germany's public broadcasting institutions) -- are collecting information about us." In Birger's opinion, there is no fundamental difference between dictatorship and freedom. "The people who live on the poverty line today also lack the freedom to travel."

Birger is by no means an uneducated young man. He is aware of the spying and repression that went on in the former East Germany, and, as he says, it was "not a good thing that people couldn't leave the country and many were oppressed." He is no fan of what he characterizes as contemptible nostalgia for the former East Germany. "I haven't erected a shrine to Spreewald pickles in my house," he says, referring to a snack that was part of a the East German identity. Nevertheless, he is quick to argue with those who would criticize the place his parents called home: "You can't say that the GDR was an illegitimate state, and that everything is fine today."

End article.

Link if you want to read more of the article: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,634122-2,00.html



I didn't lived in the DDR or in East Europe so I don't experienced what it is to lived there and then. But meeting citizens from those countries and hear their stories and feel their hate/sadness says more than an history book or media can tell.

Perhaps you should stop being a blind sheep of your government. I don't believe all my professors, only when they back things up and it's not like he's the only one that shares that opinion. Pretty much everyone does here. Yes, the world has a problem with the U.S. Didn't you know?