I personally didn't notice it until ca 2004...
Although I remember in the 1990s bad guys/girls (gangsters) in Scandinavian films were always Russian. Or rather, people pretending to speak Russian.
It got really predictable; if a Russian person was in the plot, you knew that he was up to no good.
Personally, for my family, my dad lost a lot of money due to deals that went bad with Russia around 1991. Thank goodness the internet wasn't around in those days to document it. But it certainly didn't make me like Russia for the following decade, although it wasn't really anyone's fault in particular.
Before that - in my lifetime - no Russophobia in the extreme way we see now, although some of course disliked the USSR. I associated Russia with cosmonauts, ice hockey, chess, folk costumes and music/arts before then. A bit dull and old fashioned.... Some deep, artsy extentialist film on TV when you wanted something lightweight.
I think a couple of hundred years ago though, people in Sweden hated Russia because of the various wars and battles. There is a poem about it which people my father's age know by heart, against "Muscovites".
And I think Russians attacked at some point, and burned down a city in Sweden. But this is 100s of years ago... We did the same things to others...
So if you dig DEEP then yes, there is some Russophilia.
I think Poland has similar issues, maybe stronger in their case.
I know this is an awkward topic, but it's the reality of what's happening in Europe today.
It's a huge propaganda war against Russia.
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