Quote Originally Posted by Serge_spb View Post
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But if these two recieve a Lampadas banhammer - put me behind bars as well

"But this is a forum about Russia" - I thought that forum is about russian language.
No one is obliged to speak in patriotic manner.

Many europeans \ americans here have many illusions about Russia.
I`m feeling a duty to disprove them.
At least you live in Russia. More than Eric or 14Russian who sometimes display amazing ignorance while spitting out their daily installment of anti-Russia propaganda.

But I must say that I wonder about the motives, of somebody like you, who feels the need to frequent an international forum, and convince others that his country is bad. Is your life in Russia so bad? Have you got a better solution?

Nobody thinks Russia is an ideal society. Clearly corruption, criminality and bureaucracy is a problem. My point is that it isn't an aggressive country that Europe needs to fear.

And I also wonder what your ideal is. Is it the EU that you admire? Or the USA is your ideal society? China maybe?

People take an interest in your country and language and you try to discourage them. It seems like very strange behaviour to me. There is a time and place to be critical to ones country, primarily among ones own countrymen.

I think it's a mistake on the part of the forum to allow people like Serge, Eric and 14Russian to dominate the political forum. Maybe it's a deliberate choice as a result of the events in Ukraine.

One or two people who are critical is good, but right now, all the Russians who love their country stopped posting in the political forum.

If I want to read anti-Russia talk, I don't need to go to a forum, I can turn on the TV or open a newspaper here in England. I come to the forum for the alternative view.