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user-inactivated  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Russian drivers "blink" on the road

    are there any stereotypes that Russians think about Americans (or other countries)?

Naturally: every rich country has its bigots.

There's a... khm, person (he calls himself a journalist, others - satirist, neither's true anymore) on the Russian TV, Mikhail Zadornov, who's made his career mocking Americans and promoting the idea that Russians are special who can do shit no one else has will or heart to do. Since he's the most popular relay of "information" on the American nation, it won't be a stretch to say that Russians believe Americans to be fat, stupid, expansionist and/or warlike, with asshole/moron politicians and government servants (because of the sanctions, Bush the younger and other things of past).

There's also the cretinic bigotry towards Germans, because of the WWII (to which Soviet Army had no relation - they led their own, the Great Patriotic/Fatherland War) and how propaganda worked in the USSR. Despite the country being well over their 1930s/1940s sentiment, Russians still prefer to believe Germans to be inferior and aggressive, shouting "Hitler kaput!" at them at many an opportunity. My goodness, do I want to smash those stupid russkies in the face at the moment. But ha-ha, it's so fucking fun, let's call them "fascists" once again!..

Perhaps I should have addressed just how stereotype-driven many Russians seem to be. They still call German-originated movement of Nazional-Sozialism "fascists", because that's what Soviet media called them (in response to the similar movement in Italy, my guess is).