Bloody Russians!!!

What a bunch of Putin-puking, gulag-loving losers!

Especially after what they did to that nice Mr. Litvinenko.

Why don’t they all crawl back in their black hole behind the Iron Curtain!

Along with such calls from all the British tabloids for the last three days, The Guardian today suggests we might actually feel sorry for Russians.
I mean, don’t you feel sorry for Russians? You should. How would you feel to be one of these Soviet sad cases living in a snow-covered hell?

Max Hastings at the Guardian explains:

A Romanian who visited Russia in 1944 noted a blend of arrogance and inferiority complex in their attitudes to the outside world: they are aware of their great victories but at the same time fear they are not being shown sufficient respect. This upsets them.

Yes, or rather, no, we don’t respect Russians. Well, maybe except for the odd composer. But at least, Max adds generously, we don’t exactly mean to upset them.

Few of us today want to see the Russians as enemies . . . and we do sympathise with their appalling history

So. We’ve tried very hard to like Russians. But it just isn’t working out. Max asks:

Why, having tasted freedom and democracy, should they wish to return to the murderous practices of Stalinism? Here is a nation suddenly granted wealth which might enable its people to become prosperous social democrats like us.

Like who? What? Anyway, Max adds quickly that it isn’t just Brits who can’t stand Russians. Other people have really tried to like them too.

At the G8 in St Petersburg earlier this year, other world powers sought to treat the Russians as if they were people like us, in the lingering hope that they will become so.

It’s all a bit like those ungrateful bastards in Iraq, isn’t it? We gave them a chance to be like us. And they blew it! Basically, we’re bitter about it, which Max likens to:

. . . the bitterness of rejected courtship in our response to their recent behaviour, of which the murder of Alexander Litvinenko is a bleak manifestation . .

That’s it, absolutely. Russians simply won’t behave. They are incorrigible commies. Exactly as Max continues:

Moscow is a city where taxi drivers see no embarrassment in carrying miniature portraits of Stalin on their dashboards . . .

And so on.

Read this insane article and weep.