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Merits 7 from 3 users
Re: Russophobia as a phenomenon
by
o48o
on 03/03/2023, 09:03:05 UTC
⭐ Merited by Foxpup (3) ,nutildah (2) ,1miau (2)
For example in Finland where i live, next to Russia. We don't hate russians. But because of actions of their home country we are way more suspicious.
I have visited russia often and i have russian friends, my ex girlfriend used to organize travels for tourists in there. And before putin went crazy we actually had hopes of having good ties with the country.

But we fucking hate putler and putinist propaganda, and yeah for sure we hate russians who defend actions of putin yet choose to live in here. Same way as we hate handful of finnish trolls who are for putin. They are basically enemy combatants of refugees living in here and big middle finger to them. I think that they should be under same sanctions as people who live in russia.
Yet we don't judge anyone just by speaking Russia. But if i was Russian living aboard, i would be so shamed of my country's actions i wouldn't want to risk it by speaking Russia and would totally understand that there might be people who hate my guts.

Being a Russian now is like being a son of a Hitler. Sure, you are not responsible of the actions of your father but it's fair to assume you are being hated for him unless you are very vocal against him.

On the other hand, as we have free access to russian media, we can see how much we are being demonized there. We are the next nazis they are after they definitely are paving the way to attack in here and want to "free" our people. For quite a long time now we have seen fake news in there as we can monitor them pretty easily. They are slowly turning their people against us too.

Russians on the other hand don't have access to free media. They don't know how we think about them. But they are being lied to how we think about them.