[QUOTE="Kopanja, post: 6503226, member: 20068"
]I don't think that avg russian is dumber than avg european, what, according to this thread, makes avg russian much smarter than avg tuzer.
Propaganda often capitalizes on a ressentiment prevalent in society. I think it's possible to create one from the thing air, suppose. But that's not the case for russians, I think you agree.
Idk, maybe you don't see it, because you are inside. But for an outsider, even my russian so-called friends (now ex-friends, fuck em, hope they will go through everything we are going through atm and more) in a previous life always had a metropolitan mindset, an empire is the be all end all.
On top of that, I do believe that it's ingrained in russian culture and russian mentality too deep, and it won't go away just like that. Even if this Putin dies, wihout major catharsis nothing changes. Maybe again, a decade of relative freedom, and another Putin will appear.[/QUOTE]
1) Average Ivan is 100% dumber than average John, Frank, Michelle, Heinrich or Ciro just because russian school education is still living in 80s. Also you won't find even 1 russian university in the top200 of the world's best universities and it says a lot.
2) No, russian propaganda is built on hatred - we have a great country, we have a great culture, we won the WW II, the whole world should be thankful to Russia, there are only enemies around, everyone envy us, everyone is afraid of us, no one perceived Yeltsin's Russia but everyone fears and respects Putin's Russia, we have the best weapons, the best missiles, our president alone fights the three main villains of the world - the US, the EU and NATO.
3) In russian schools they don't teach us about holodomor, Katyn massacre, they don't teach us about what mistakes Nikolay II did, they don't teach us about the red disease that didn't allow the countries of the soc. bloc to live and develop after World War II, That's why so many people are still believe that USSR was a paradise land destroyed by evil americans and europeans. Hell, nowadays i can't publicly say that World War II began with the division of Poland by Hitler and Stalin, for such words I can be convicted under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism

In Putin's Russia, the war began in the summer of 41, and not in September 1939

Orwell would have been proud
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Damn, Sleepy Joe is destroying putin again and again