Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
не только у нас спорят!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6183704.stm

читая это, я почти готов изменить свое мнение!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...957680,00.html
Yeah... often readers are more adequate than authors)). I liked some of the comments a lot. For example:

Many Western naturalists and anthropologists perceive Russians as human beings. This misconcept can be explained by the fact that Russians have pale skin that largely lacks hair cover, and the majority of their males and females have long lost their tails, hoofs, and horns. Many of them resemble White Man to such a degree that some Westerners even seek to treat them as equal,-an utterly fanciful notion.

Russians seem to genetically differ from the Western White Man, and many experts believe that Russians are the species that is distinctly different from the arians, although some argue that, as Russian females can bear human babies, they should be considered as sub-humans.

The concepts of Western civilization and culture is largely lost on those poor beings. Frustration about lack of respect for westerners has been woven into Russians for centuries. One French Emperor who visited Russia in 1812 with his troops was awed by the hardships accepted by Tsar's people. He noted a blend of arrogance and inferiority complex in their attitudes. Russians seemed somewhat upset and all the noble attempts to ingrain the concepts of libertй, йgalitй, fraternitй into the Russian soul have failed. Also, there was one German Canceller who visited Russia with his troops in 1941, who was awed by the hardships accepted by Stalin's people. He, too, noted a blend of arrogance and inferiority complex in their attitudes to the outside world. He seemed to somewhat upset Russians, so that all the attempts to ingrain the concepts of the Arian Superiority into the misterious Russian soul have failed.

This blend of arrogance and inferiority complex persist to the present day. Russians fail to understand the simple concepts, such as Russia being presumed guilty by default in the eyes of the West. When accused of a crime, their leaders would not take the guilt as granted, but would talk back and ask for a proof! Many Russians would ridicule the civilization missions carried out by the West on the Middle East and in Balkans. They would arrogantly tell you that attacking the countries that neither threaten nor attacked you constitutes war crime. The noble civilizing mission of the West seems to be completely lost on them,- they can argue for hours that murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians cannot be the result West should be proud of.

Yet we have to deal with these Russian barbarians for the laughable reason that they happen to sit on the largest resources of gas and oil that we happen to desperately need on he West. Because of their utterly criminal thermonuclear weaponry, we cannot simply come to them with a civilizing mission and take the resources we need with the help of our multi-billion worth military forces. Instead, we have to patiently explain to Russians the benefits of providing us with the ever increasing flow of gas and oil. Russians seem to be deeply suspicuous in our motives,-they bore you with their talks about hundreds of years of the exploitation of the world by the West, they can endlessly talk about looting of Russia by the West after the Cold War, they seem to be unable to embrace the notion that providing Russian natural resources to the West is not the right, but their privilige. For that, West will provide Russia with money that they can spend on the further development of their gas and oil industries, and for building more pipelines to the West. Some western money can be used by Russia to buy industrial goods from China and India.

Nonetheless, I dream about the day when the apparently accursed and inferior Russian beings could be granted with access to the most precious treasures of the western civilization,-including the ultimate right to enjoy the talents of the most brilliant western journalists, including the incomparable Max Hastings.

But now and then, I am afraid to admit to myself that Russians may be hopeless.