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Originally Posted by August
From several posts that you've made here on this forum it seems to me that you think we here in the west are just itching to wipe you out. Now I can't speak for the Europeans but that's not how we roll here in America.
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Just remember this. After the fall of the USSR when you folks were in disarray and couldn't mount much of a response we could have nuked your country into a glass floored, self lighting parking lot and gotten away with it, but we didn't and we wouldn't. Can you say the same thing about your leader?
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Sure we remember. While the physical existance of our country was assured through the strength of our nuclear deterent we had to endure humiliation and abuse, both at home with the foreighn agents (and I use the US legal term here) undermining as from within and abroad, with Russia being unable to defend it's national interests. And that would have been fine, if not for the false promise to treat us fairly that was given at the end of the Cold War and in exchange for our surrender.
If not for the strength of arms and will we would have been destroyed and subjugated, a plausible excuse would always be found to justify it by one who searches with the intent to find it.
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Russians still believe in God? Really? I thought the Soviets stamped out religion and sent all the believers to the Gulag in order to create that workers paradise.
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This was there to make you think (which apparently you did not) and to mirror your own question. However to answer it - I am, personally, a follower of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Not all of my kin died in the purges, despite being old servants of Russia. So we remember the good, the bad, the ugly.