I'm Russian – ask me a question. Be it about Russia or a personal one.

Hey OP...what is your opinion as to the factual basis of the holocaust? How about the average Russian/

Many people in west do not believe the official "story"

Your English is impressive. It is hard to fathom that you have never lived in US and can use English so well. I am originally from Belarus, was born during USSR and have been living in US for 14 yrs. You are very well educated. I am a female. Have you noticed that our people ( I still look at all the Soviet countries as one LOL) are more serious and not as outgoing/cheerful as westerners? I am married to an American and even though I am more outgoing than an average Russian person, I still get comments about me being too serious. Sometimes when I work with someone who associates with Americans only at work and comes otherwise from Russian family, even I notice that that person can be too straightforward, borderline rude, and unfriendly from first impression. I do not mean to say that our people are bad people, just that they sometimes lack social skills. Have you ever noticed that? Even my husband asked me visiting Belarus, why everyone looks angry. I never thought that way and after that comment I started watching it and noticed we do not smile as much as westerners. What do you think about this?

Thanks for replying. =) Watched a few videos of roads in Eastern Russia, yes they do look a little rough. The road to Yakutsk looks so cold and alone!

What is your view on stalin and what he did?

Well, the main thing that is left off is the state of Russian (or Soviet - whatever) society then. It may be unintended actually, because it's a thing not easy to understand even for the most of Russians, let alone an American.
As I see it, the thing is that when Stalin started his "cleansing" ("Great Terror") the majority if not all of Soviet elites were people with revolutionary past. They were people who've either betrayed their loyalty to Russian Empire 20 years before that or people who've weren't loyal to it from the very start and were actively working against the state during WWI. Why should Stalin been counting on them being loyal to Soviet Union instead? It includes civil servants ("Party apparatus") as well as the military. Actually, his suspicion turned out somewhat right, as the example of Vlasov and some other collaborators demonstrated. That's why I believe that the primary thought of getting rid of dangerous elements was quite right. He waited just enough for people who were brought up in SU, who had an undivided loyalty to it to be able to take place of those who he was targeting.
The other thing - but a logical continuation of the previous one - is that the majority of adult population of Soviet Union have seen the chaos of Civil War. They've remembered it's rules (a law of jungle, actually) as an integral part of their life. I believe that the real reason that the whole thing was allowed to supposedly "deteriorate beyond the reasonable magnitude" was because for the preservation of statehood (especially at the times of trouble which has come when the was has begun) required that the people must have been taught "a fear of law". It's of course regrettable that innocents were harmed, but I believe that the archived result - country's unity during the most critical time of our history - is a prize high enough to counter this argument.

For those not aware, I too had direct relatives who've suffered from the Soviet system. Including my Great Grandfather who was imprisoned under a false and ridiculous accusation, my Grandfather who was not allowed to live in Moscow due to the fact that he was captured by Nazis at some point of war - or even my Mother who was forced to state in her documents that her father was a PoW. I'm just trying to be objective and see into other possibilities. And by doing that I can not see another, sure, but less bloody and violent way someone would have been able to keep a country together and defeat Nazis. And if they were not defeated... let's say, we would have wished Stalin would have been twice as cruel as he was in reality.

You need to work harder on it, I hate seeing any race of woman with a negro unless she is a negress. It's nasty and unnatural. I'm from Argentina originally and women there no not to associate with blacks, ecspecially those from the US.

Hello Tamonten,

I am the one from this thread "maybe the russians like to stay in germany after all.."

There is a specific question: what if I actually would welcome the russians to come to germany, as I think this is the only way left to clean the garbage of the country away...

Now, may I ask you, how could I possible let these russian soldiers know that in our house they are welcome for food and rest. Could I possible put a sign outside that says "welcome russian friend" or "finally you have come"
- in russian?

Anything to make them understand we are happy that they have come? But not in a frivolous manner, but really from the heart.

What could we possible do?

Please advise us.
Thank you.
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forgot the thread link
Thread: The prophecies of the seer Alois Irlmaier - 'Then comes a large number of strangers into the country' (Page 4)
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What is happening with the Anastasia movement at the moment? Are people interested in the free land on offer in the far east? Will Russia become the 'hope of the world' as Edgar Cayce said? Will you start living for your fellow man, as Anastasia has predicted?

I've stated somewhere in this thread that even being self-styled Pagan, I tend to distance myself from Pagan and neo-Pagan sects. From what I've read on the matter, Ringing Cedars is one of such sects.

Any German equipment still in the field left over from "The Great Patriotic War?"

If NATO and the US launch a FIRST STRIKE
against Russia, whose side will you be on?

I'm an Australian born with polish parents, I've always wondered what do Russians think of Poland/polish people.


From what I've observed we are genetically very similar to Russians.

Why did Russia invade and enslave the Chechnian people? For their oil?!

Well, we are all Slavs - Poles are Western Slavs, Russians are Eastern Slavs - of course we are similar. Much like Germans and Austrians are alike.
But aside from genetics there are very important cultural differences. While Poland was an integral part of Western civilization, Russia was isolated from it till 17th century. Plus Orthodoxy-Catholicism controversy and difficult history of Partitions of Poland...

As for the rest - aside from several ongoing stereotypes, we are equally friendly to anyone, Poles included.

I've answered a similar question not long ago - drawing furious reaction from one asking though.
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That's some question here... o_O

Well... In such case (not very likely I should note) I'd recommend a flag or coat-of-arms of GDR - regardless of my own or your views on Communism and such. Maybe together with Russian flag too.
Russian flag - for the young soldiers, GDR emblem - for those of senior generation.
I won't recommend writing any Russian slogans or words however unless you are really able to speak Russian. It'll just disorient people instead. What I've listed above is quite enough to express support without risking to look silly though.

I told my wife, If the Russians invaded America
I wouldn't know whether to shoot at them,
or welcome them.

It is no conflict, the question has already been solved
the enemy already has taken our homeland.

Any russian who comes to the land (america or germany) can never be as bad as the enemy who is here now.

Welcome russia!
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Thank you, we will do that.
I hope you are safe and need not go with the army.
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What do average (non GLP) Russians think about the Western news media in general. Do they think that we, in the West, are being fed propaganda?

What about the fall of the federation and the return to Serbia?

Sorry, I didn't really understand the question?..