It is quite telling to see the amount of Russia bashing in this thread alone, and the fact that Russia, again as usual, has to put itself into a defensive position. In a way Russia-bashers' actions speak against their words.
But is it so bad being pro-Russian, history has shown that it's synonymous to being pro-freedom, pro-independence, pro-truth, anti-fascist.
What the fuck Russian has do for freedom for 3 century ? Nothing... Near of all freedom philosopher come from the west.
We can start with Tatar-Mongol invasion and the fact that Russia took the brunt of it sparing the Western Europe. We can mention the Polish invasion of 1600, Tevtonic invasion of 1742, the French invasion of 1812, the French-British invasion of 1854, the Polish and Western intervention of 1917-1920, the German invasion of 1940-1945. The WWI is an exception. Russia didn't have any claims in the war, but was obliged to enter it to defend Serbia, which which it had a treaty, and which received an impossible ultimatum from Austria.
While the West was philosophising about peace and freedom, and conducting an occasional crusade or an invasion, Russia was busy deflecting said invasion against itself or its allies.
Sorry for a continuation of an off-topic.
