• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, you don’t need to write a big longnwinded racist comment about Russian people. I have a few Russian friends. They are nothing like what you describe.

      • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
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        3 days ago

        No racism was intended. Perhaps I expressed myself poorly.

        I do not consider the Russian people be any dumber or inferior than any other nation. I meant that their civil society has not had the opportunity to grow and develop into a strong democracy like many European countries.

        I too have many Russian friends and most of what I wrote I have learned from discussions with them. And more than a half of my father’s ancestors are Russian.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      You could have written something very similar about the USA, just that their oligarchy started a few centuries earlier.