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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 8467938, member: 78949"]Any, what I said meant that I don't know what you, Westerners, know <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> Actually we, Easterners, did not know much as were a subject of mass brain washing. But I was told that Stalin was not much different from Hitler, I guess because it was already the Perestroyka time and many taboos were lifted. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, because they have never been through the catharsis of a heavy defeat to tell them that they are not "the chosen ones". After the Cold War defeat they were supported by the Western world who believed that if they were economically integrated and their standard of living increased they would gradually become a normal democratic society. Which is utopian. </p><p>IMO Russians have to be heavily trashed (like Germans had been) in order to get all that imperial sh.t out of their brains. I don't know how it can be done and fear that if done, it will have high price but there is no other way, I am afraid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 8467938, member: 78949"]Any, what I said meant that I don't know what you, Westerners, know :) Actually we, Easterners, did not know much as were a subject of mass brain washing. But I was told that Stalin was not much different from Hitler, I guess because it was already the Perestroyka time and many taboos were lifted. Yes, because they have never been through the catharsis of a heavy defeat to tell them that they are not "the chosen ones". After the Cold War defeat they were supported by the Western world who believed that if they were economically integrated and their standard of living increased they would gradually become a normal democratic society. Which is utopian. IMO Russians have to be heavily trashed (like Germans had been) in order to get all that imperial sh.t out of their brains. I don't know how it can be done and fear that if done, it will have high price but there is no other way, I am afraid.[/QUOTE]
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