But you seem to suggest that the US is a nicer place to live, so it's fine that they've waged aggressive wars all over the globe for more than half a century?
Look my grandparents died a few years ago in a small tiny village by the Volga, once you travel outside of Moscow and Leningrad(StPetersburg nowadays) you may as well be time travelling into the past. The place had no paved roads leading to it had to travel couple of says on grotty trains to get there. The farming being done is subsistence with remnants of old Soviet coop in the village, alcoholism is rampant so is depression. It is understandable how one who might never has left Moscow doesn't realise how truly and incredibly poor the rest of the country is
Now rural US or UK may as well be on a different planet when compared to that.
This is all from personal experience, what has happened and is happening in Russia is beyond tragic.
Now go ahead and come up with another "But but the US"
US and Europe have all sorts of issues and are not perfect and no one claims they are, but they are damned better places for my kids to grow up in.
I lived in the West for a long time and returned with my children to eastern Europe. Sure it's poorer and less developed and plagued with problems. There are many frustrating things, but to categorically suggest it is impossible to live there (or Russia I guess) would be an insult to everyone who does.
You've found your happiness in Europe and that's great.
Because right now the discussion looks like this:
- Help! This thieve has stolen my bag!
- Shut up, others do it all the time.I'd like to know whether those opinions are formed as a result of propaganda. In this case, whether any anti-russian opinions are out of principle (e.g. pacifist principles) or on the basis of consumed propaganda.