Well, at least Russians raided mainland Sweden at least once.
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It is not that black and white. Stalin gained power after completely insane period of Russian history. Three revolutions in quick succession, defeat in World War I, and absolutely brutal civil war. At a time anyone was better than complete chaos. Furthermore, if you compare him with other people who could get power at…
Well, Poles happily burnt Moscow once, and even put polish guy as a king of Russia. So mistrust is mutual. As to having advanced military, Polish people were always at war, either offensive or defensive. And they never were bad fighters.
How about wiki?
When I was in high school in 80s in Leningrad we hosted a student group from UK. They were very vocal about USSR shooting down Korean Boeing. We were on defense saying well it was deep in our sky, it was not responding and we were thinking that it is either a spy or hostile. But when we were pressed, was it really…
The easiest explanation is usually correct. I think that SU24 pilots did not hear warnings. I do not think they deliberately wanted to poke Turkey when they have enough things to do in a war zone. It is not the same for Baltics. In Baltics russian pilots have nothing else to do but annoy neighbors on purpose. Isn’t it…
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I was in Latvia. European country which nevertheless had enough of excuses not to grant citizenship for 25% of its population who was also oppressed under USSR and after its dissolution had nowhere to go. We all biased a bit and finding excuses for interventions, discrimination, revolutions, government changes all the…
Lasarus, I even not sure that Putin needs to pay anyone now. It is a reality that overwhelming majority of Russian expats are conservative, and not only Russians in Russia. Well, the biggest block voting republican in NY city is Russian Jews who left country in 70s.?! Interestingly, that the most critical Russians of…
Lazarus, I can assure you that not all Russians on forums are a part of Putin’s propaganda machine. I left Russia 17 years ago but I do keep interest in situations around this country. A lot of people who left during 90s were leaving collapsing society. What happened during 20 years under Putin’s rule gives a lot of…
This is not correct. Putin outlined his strategy pretty clear from the start. He claimed that Assad governing structure and army are the only realistic forces on the ground that can bring bits and pieces of Syria together. Therefore he supports Assad against any armed resistance. Like it or not Assad regime is…