Why do the American people hate the Soviet Union?
I respect that Russia was able to challenge the U.S. & create aircrafts that can match the U.S. that their own allies couldn't. I respect that the USSR did not patronize, tolerate, & encourage free ridding moochers for life requiring them to contribute in labor. I respect that criminal justice is swift in the USSR. I don't respect sending people in the gulag who didn't commit petty or capital crimes, like Kuralev & Tupolev, I don't respect the massacre of the Romanov family. I don't respect constant surveillance by the KGB. I don't respect that opportunities, property, entrepreneurship, & liberty was extremely limited if non existence. I don't respect that people who dedicate & sacrifice their time, mind, & savings to acquire & apply abilities/skills far beyond that of a burger flipper, custodian, a garbage hauler, a barber, a massager, etc. are reduce to the same level. Where Doctors, Rocket Engineers, Engineers, Physicist, Electricians, Burger flipper, Teachers, Professors, Chefs, Architects, Janitors, Athletes, Window Washers, earning equal pay (minimum) wage living in public housing where health care, food supplies, & energy are rationed except for important people. No businesses, no Supermarkets, No Franchises, No Shopping Malls/Plaza, just Government Commissaries & Soup kitchens. I don't hate Russia just the system it was Under.
Do American people feel hostile towards Russian visitors and vice versa?
Look, I’ve said it before but apparently it bears repeating – there are 330 million Americans. No one can speak for all of us. No one.So, I will speak for myself – and I’m pretty representative of some Americans.Russians are people – there are good people, and bad people. There are people who are kind and compassionate and who will judge each person by their own merits and how they treat others. Other people will lump a group of people together and arbitrarily assign them characteristics – or stereotypes. And, to be fair, some portion of the assigned group may in fact demonstrate those characteristics – or not. They may demonstrate them once – or multiple times. Or never.So – for my part, I will judge a Russian as a person first and foremost. If they are kind or funny or difficult then I will form my opinion at that juncture. Of them as an individual.Recently, I was in St. Petersburg, Russia – which is a far more beautiful city than I had imagined. We had a wonderful guide – whose sense of irony was acute, and who graciously showed us around her magnificent city. We had a wonderful time, and she, for her part, expressed that someday Russian and American relations would improve.I want to make one thing clear: I don’t see Putin as representing all Russians – and I personally don’t trust Putin. But I don’t see Trump as representing all Americans either – and I don’t trust Trump. They are both people and their motivations are their own. Regardless, of their words, they have their own interests – which may or may not dovetail with their countries best interests – as their core motivators. As do we all.So, that being said – there’s a picture that is making the rounds on social media these days of Republicans wearing T shirts emblazoned with the bold statement: I’d rather be Russian than Democrat. They are definitely not hostile to Russians – and nor am I.Equally true, the limited time I spent in St. Petersburg did not strike me as a hostile environment as an American tourist.Like I said, Russians are people and I’m sure some of them don’t have a particularly good opinion of me as an American tourist – others, probably couldn’t care less.
Do the British and Americans hate each other?
My family and I went to Florida a few years ago for a holiday. Whilst we were there we met some of the friendliest, most personable people I have ever met. People who would approach us to say hello because they heard our accent. People who would go out of their way to help us from service industry people to normal members of the public. One day we went to a range so my son and I could shoot a few guns. A few customers wanted to ask about our gun laws and we had a really interesting conversation for quite a while. Whilst we were shooting a gent next to me was using his new shotgun and approached me to ask if I wanted a go. Americans may be brash, their society may have problems such as with an unashamed love of guns and healthcare. But every society has issues. Every single one.Americans are a lovely group of people. I am lucky enough to have friends from there I talk to on a fairly regular basis.Most normal people from the U.K like America. We are two sides of the same coin. Enough differences to interest each other yet enough similarities to recognise people we enjoy the company of and trust when the shit hits the fan. We have a centuries old friendship for a damn good reason.Stop trying to create questions that have no underlying basis in any type of fact.
Do Russians and Italians hate eachother?
What bullshit! I suppose there are a few ignorant xenophobes in every society; but the Russians I know (the maternal side of my husband's family) don't even hate individual Americans, any more than British veterans of WWII hated the Germans. Hatred of a people, as contrasted with a state, is a manifestation of gross stupidity.
Why doesn't Russia like the United States?
This supposes Russia doesn't. I'm an American who lived in Russia and just didn't feel that. The people in Russia were some of the most apolitical people I've ever met. Many feel the system is so corrupt, so heavy handed that they just can't do anything about it and prefer to stay out of it. That being said, there is still negative feelings by the people towards US foreign policy and sometimes culture. That comes from a mix of Russian state-sponsored propoganda and the true state of crappiness embedded within US foreign policy. Many of my conversations with Russians about politics can basically be summed up with the statement, "it's all about money and it's all bs...but how could your government have blown up the World Trade Center?" (conspiracies are VERY popular in Eastern Europe--once explained to me that this stemmed from the lies their own communist governments often told them and where the conspiracies turned out to be at least partially true). But culturally speaking, I met plenty of people with a great fascination about America. They see our movies, they dream of our great long highways (often complaining about Russian roads), our sunny beaches in California and Florida and I've never seen a busier McDonald's at 11pm than the one off of Red Square or almost any McDonald's I walked by in that country. And like Americans, they praise and criticise what they see about America all the same. Politically speaking, it's a struggle for the big dog in the world and more importantly the region as mentioned in other posts. Still, it's all about money and it's all bs...but I'm pretty sure the only countries that actually don't like the US are the Islamic State and North Korea. With Russia, it's just complicated.