Putin is not the enemy

[Arhat]

Something tells me in America the same was happening : the govt. would dissuade the people, in a more subversive way, not to pay any visit to all those "undemocratic" countries, while the richest can go wherever they please ; the most curious would have gotten their chances with the Internet.

Politicians and elites everywhere in the world claim privileges but in Russia it is more obvious than in the rest of the world. Anyways Russia and America are much more similar than many think. Actually America is in some ways closer to Russia than to Europe. Both are huge countries with wide lands, carcentric, more religious than europe, more capitalist (there is nothing socialist about modern day Russia), have more traditional gender roles and emphasize their army/weapons. Many Russians actually love americans and a lot of them dream about a life in America. From what i am heard it is easier for Russians to integrate into american culture than to integrate into European cultures. All this anti-western rhetorics are either for older people, who grew up in the soviet union or for ultranationalists.

[Odin]