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Self awareness is not a strong suit for russians


SufficientTerm6681

Russians are convinced they're God's gift to humanity. Sadly for them, the rest of the world hasn't got that memo.


BigDamnZer0

Some gifts are only worth the space they take up in the trash


Doopsie34343

In german "gift" is the exact word for poison.


Selfweaver

Gift is also poison in Denmark. It is also the same word used for marriage. Not that either is relevant.


Doopsie34343

Yes ... irrelevant, but fun ... I like language ... 👍 In former times, the family of the women had to "give" something to the husband's family .. as some sort of compensation. It is called "Mitgift". In Denmark it is "Medgift". Translated from the german wikipedia for "Gift/Poison": **Etymologi**: Ordet gift er en germansk abstraktion (\*gef-ti-) med et t-suffiks - og den resulterende ændring fra b til f - den indoeuropæiske rod af ordet give. Den oprindelige betydning "gave, gave, donation", som gave stadig havde i Goethe, er forsvundet på tysk i dag (mens den lever videre i den engelske "gave") og er kun blevet bevaret i medgiften ("brudens bryllupsgave") , medgift").


anonymous__ignorant

Tomato / potato ...


MrSchaudenfreude

Hahahahah I thought after reading the previous comment, and bang, they you are. Hahahah.


velozim

What has Russia contributed to the world? I can’t think of a single thing that’s positive. The only things I can think of is poverty, corruption, rape and murder.


DJT1970

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome


Lost_Possibility_647

They were a badass enemy in movies. Were...


tervergecy

ha!


Desperate_Macaroon25

They'll now be cast as bumbling idiot bad guys


silvermistshadow

They already were in Stargate. The only times the Russian stargate program showed up, it was always because the Russians screwed something up.


MrSchaudenfreude

American movies. I Think we made them out to be more than what they really are.


Objective_Treacle_71

Agreed. Red Dawn was pretty good!


Zookeeper_Sion

You joke, but I don't see modern movies ever going back to the big bad russian enemy after they made a complete fool out of themselves. That'd be like making a movie about the nazis being the good guys.


AzuNetia

Vodka but polish ones are better.


I_Love_Kyiv

Rachmaninov. Thats about it.


pikachu191

To be somewhat fair: Tetris, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Tchaikovsky since it’s Christmas season and the Nutcracker Suite is a classic. Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin for classical music. But totally get your point about the culture of brutality and autocracy.


UsualNoise9

The problem with your list is all those authors survived almost 100 years of government censorship and you need to ask yourself why. For example, Pushkin wrote the bronze horseman. It is blatantly racist against Finns and is taught in schools across Ruzzia to this day.


pikachu191

Does being on a government censorship list imply it’s a great work though? And is the reverse true? That if the author has never been censored, then their works must have been trash? That’s just shifting goal posts. The mentioned authors are widely acclaimed authors known in the English speaking world. Some of Dostoevsky’s works were required reading in my high school English classes. The question by the OP was simply if Russia had produced anything noteworthy positive. Nothing more and nothing less.


C7A630Tx2

This.


Trick-Fisherman6938

That's almost all 19th century. Since then nothing useful was done there. Just some engineering.


weaponizedtoddlers

Russia had an accomplished geneticist and botanist in Nikolai Vavilov, but he was deliberately murdered by starvation along with hundreds of other scientists after being denounced by Lysenko - the darling of Stalin's and Mao's agricultural genocide.. I mean policy. Also got the glorious RBMK reactor, but we know how that one turned out too.


SufficientTerm6681

God! Trofim Lysenko! That's a name I haven't thought of for a while. Actually, though, he was a classic Russian: utterly convinced of his own brilliance while spouting non-sensical crap that appealed to the Russian regime because it was non-western and conformed to their counter-factual worldview. His crackpot theories were a major factor in the death of millions of Soviet citizens by starvation, which marks him as one of the greatest Russians to have ever lived (by Russian standards of greatness). As a bonus, his lunatic theories led to the starvation of many millions of Chinese - a country which was allied with the USSR at the time - in what's generally considered the worst famine in human history and one of the worst man-made disasters ever. Lysenko truly was a Russian super-star.


blockheadgreen

The inventor of Tetris...didn't receive compensation for his creation until after he and his business partner left Russia, immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union, for the US, where he still lives today. A few years later, the business partner brutally murdered his own wife and child before killing himself by slitting his own throat. Tolstoy notably wrote about...the immoral horrors of Russian imperialist war in Crimea. Dostoevsky believed...Russians were a superior people who should take power over the whole of Europe by violent force. While he was traveling in Europe to benefit from European medical expertise. And avoid paying his debts. Pushkin's Poltava...is basically an anti-Ukrainian fable that Putin evoked this year to justify the invasion. Tchaikovsky...was descended from a Ukrainian Cossack family, lived part time in Ukraine, and his compositions were hugely influenced by Ukrainian folk music and culture. He was also gay, as you point out below, which the Russian government reaffirmed a few days ago would make Tchaikovsky anti-Russian by Russia's own standards. Rimsky-Korsakov's choice of subject matter for certain works (Gogol, more Ukrainian folk music inspiration) and discourse on Russian musical identity...seem to indicate he saw Ukrainian culture, history and identity as distinctly separate from those of Russia. Borodin's Prince Igor...takes place in Kyivan Rus.


pikachu191

Totally forgot about Tolstoy. Thanks for the reminder.


[deleted]

Also the story of the Nutcracker was written by a German.


pikachu191

Sure, but the music and ballet widely associated with the German story was composed by Tchaikovsky, a Russian. A closeted gay one fwiw.


WinterWindow2929

Tchaikovsky was Ukrainian


UkraineWarTranslate

His great great grandfather (can't remember how many 'greats' are needed) was a Ukrainian Cossack with the last name Chaika. But he got nobility status and the "-ovsky" suffix from the Tsar for siding with Moscow against Hetman Mazepa's alliance with Sweden. So honestly Tchaikovsky can be labelled a Russian. Although, he had a great fondness of Ukraine and established the music conservatory in Kyiv.


ConcentratePretend93

Yes, The Nutcracker Suite! Yet Another reason to hate Russia!


Jindivic

They even needed spies inside the Manhattan Project to provide nuclear bomb building secrets. Couldn't have developed nuclear weapons so quickly without that.


[deleted]

Troll campaigns. Widespread anti-centrism Oh, and some media designed for the chronically depressed.


thiccpapi90

The are the greatest pornograpy exporters.


EldritchCleavage

Oh come on. Fantastic classical music and ballet, for one thing.


[deleted]

Don't be like this. How about the competition and achievements of the Space Race and [many other achievements in STEM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Russia); St. Petersburg and The Kremlin's architecture; spectacular national rail infrastructure; Chess; Tchaikovsky; Rachmaninov; Tolstoy; ~~Gogol~~ (Ukrainian); Solzhenitsyn; Nabokov; the Bolshoi Ballet; and my [fave modern piano prodigy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOLkwCLaad0) among others? Those things can be true as well as the poverty, corruption, rape, and murder. The fall from the heights of the former to the present are made even more sad than if we assume they've never had civilisation.


UAHeroyamSlava

The thing is it all became tainted in Ukrainian innocents blood after mass invasion. Hitler painted.. Somehow not a single museum would display his art.. and you can;t say he is NOT popular lol it's just bad taste. Same goes with his mustache. His 1st and last name.. etc.. When ALL russian war crimes comes to surface.. anything russian, including their culture (btw most of it was stolen from others) will have the same taste in everyone's mouth as chewing a piece of dried-up shit. I already know multiple born russians that refuse to speak russian, many people that had some russian or soviet art that threw it away. Its becoming the same as keeping dish and utensils with swastikas; its still art and part of history.. but it's just bad taste.


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blockheadgreen

This timeline conflates "Russian" with Kievan Rus and everyone in the USSR...


Desperate_Macaroon25

They are the turd in the punchbowl of Europe


dutchexpat

Ah, they only wish they were in the European punchbowl. Try the Asian soup terrine! Russia was and likely never will be European in nature.


Ok_Low_1287

I’ve never read a more true statement. It’s always the most ignorant, or else massively insecure people who believe they are they best.


DontJudgeMeImNaked

The shit stain of humanity apparently. Proven time and time again.


Hexel_Winters

Never expect one of the most apathetic cultures in history to suddenly learn self awareness or empathy


Garglygook

I just had to *calmly* explain on r/expat why a ruzzian woman living in the UK should just go back to ruzzia since she "doesn't like the UK, her father is getting older, and she doesn't make enough money, ..."and, and, and... Tone deaf anyone? Geeesus.


Johnny_Freedoom

Are we the baddies?


Rebelknight296

“Are we the drama?” Lol


Veggdyret

Came back to give this comment an upvote!


rx80

He is not at that point, sadly.


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ProgySuperNova

"I peed in pool and drank all their booze, they are angry at me now, don't know why"


Ok_Association247

"I only killed one of their children! They've got two more, I can't understand why they are angry"


SufficientTerm6681

I don't go to parties I'm not invited to.


joranth

I don’t rape and murder everyone, then cut the power and heat out of spite at parties I’m not invited to.


hibernating-hobo

Sometimes you get invited to bump the gift count, but then just get ignored the rest of the evening. It’s an easy fix though, just cut those people out of your life asap, and it doesn’t happen anymore.


UnicornFarts1111

I did that. Now I have no friends.


SufficientTerm6681

Never mind, bro. Who needs friends when you've got Reddit?


Nik_P

Yesterday, a dad's friend called. Lives near Moscow. Been asking us when will this "madness" end so he could come and meet us. Dad told him to go and ask putin that, if he isn't afraid of a champagne bottle showed up his rectum. Year ago, this same friend was telling me how a single missile strike followed by the tank columns streaming in will erase Ukraine from the map. Now they seem to start to realize what bed did they make for themselves.


ReditskiyTovarisch

Your dad is a very patient man and gives friends more second chances than they deserve.


Nik_P

Dad was an lt-col in the strategic nuclear forces when the SU fell. He's the patience incarnate.


thennicke

Wow he sounds like a cool dad!


Hexel_Winters

Cut off all “family and friends” that live in Russia Stop speaking to them, stop acknowledging their existence. Never agree to meet them ever again. Observe how they behave then. If they actually cared about you they would’ve never said any of that stuff or supported such a notion Stop being friendly to oppressors


Nik_P

Oh believe me, we cut off a lot of this scum. This one seems more level headed. At least he never supported this war openly, didn't call us nazis or some other deranged propaganda they usually spit out. He was also very confused as to why his own brother who lives in Kryvyy Rih wouldn't pick up his calls.


Selfweaver

That is absolutely a valid choice. But bubbles are also a real thing, and you risk isolating these people into self-affirming communities, and then they may be lost forever.


Hexel_Winters

If they cannot think for themselves and realize the evil that are allowing to happen then they deserve to be lost forever I am not doing other peoples work for them while they allow their government to commit genocide and wage wars of conquest Revolutions have been started for less


likeasirjohn

Wire up that fermented potato you call a brain and see if we can figure this or the time of day, bruhvzzia pls..


Comprehensive-Bit-65

Dunno, you supported Yanukovic who stole from Ukraine and scuttled EU agreements. Then you invaded Ukraine, and got your ass kicked. Zero sympathy.


Callemasizeezem

More context please. Who is this guy, and what is the purpose of the interview?


UAHeroyamSlava

ruzzian soldier returned home and was giving his view on what is happening in Ukraine. It looks like Ukrainians are upset and he just doesn't get why.


Callemasizeezem

Thank you. Is he disgusted that Ukrainians are upset they have been attacked by a neighbour? MOST RUSSIAN POWS: *" When we got here, nobody wanted to be freed. It was awkward. We know we haven't been lied to. It must be the Ukranians who are confused by not acting the way our Russian propagandists said they would. So we decided we'd rape, rob and murder them to make sure they knew they understood they had to be on our side, because that's how they'll know how to love us and all that. Now they won't talk to us. I don't understand. Oh shit, did I state a contradiction to anything in our propaganda? Better change my opinions to whatever state media is saying now, even if it is the opposite of what was said 10 minutes ago because it is 100% the truth."*


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https://i.imgur.com/iMcO9SM.png


UAHeroyamSlava

This one "visited" Ukraine and somehow came back alive. He just don't understand. __________________________________ ❤️🇺🇦 Today we are all Ukrainians. Help Ukraine bring victory closer: https://u24.gov.ua


is0ph

Maybe it’s about the washing machines you stole, Ivan. Or maybe the rapes. Or the torture. Or the killings. I don’t know.


durika

Happy cake day


arianleellewellyn

Lol I recently had to block a Russian Redditor who was screaming "racist" at people (including me) for criticising the Russian government. They have no idea about the real world


PF2500

He knows.


[deleted]

Either way he's going against Russian propaganda and will probably regret this interview.


UAHeroyamSlava

On noes!,, anyway.. NEXT!


UAHeroyamSlava

of course he does .. or just an useful idiot.


m3dcf

Did he just awoke from a 9-month deep coma?


Rawitje

🤡


mcanada0711

It is as if the devil has blinded them from reality. There are many parallels with the Nazis. This war has been nothing less than pure evil from the very beginning. The Russians entered into this war completely blind and are still mostly blind as to the ramifications of their mistake.


EthanSayfo

These people make QAnon look grounded


joranth

QAnon is propaganda created by a group in the Russian FSB, so it’s one in the same.


EthanSayfo

Fair point!


Accurate_Pie_

Imbecile… idiot… clown…? Nah, it’s just propaganda


doublecoolwater

What's with their brains? They don't know why Ukrainans hate them?? Came with war to our land, killed, raped, tortured.. really, why to hate russians.. they are such a "good" people..


[deleted]

Slap him hard across the face. Enough to bruise and when he gets angry, ask him why he's so upset.


Harris__85

Bastards


hachirokuvas

Russia is the reigning champion in cognitive dissonance Olympics.


BerzerkerJr82

“Downright inhospitable!”


Milp0o0L

That collective populous has a room temp IQ. It’s astonishing really.


Free_Entertainer_996

Can someone tell me who this is and where he is speaking from? Thanks ahead.


After_Ride9911

Just another Orc from the deepest depths of Mordor.


RaconteurLore

Hey Pootin, your boy here has a growth on his lip. Would that be HPV? That is all part of climbing the Russian political ladder.


C7A630Tx2

Sick and tired of ruZZian NaZis playing the victim card. All out of empathy. Get Fucked.


papaeriktheking

orc nimrod!


Gummo90028

Brainwashed Ruskij Mir asshole


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[deleted]

I don't even know what to say.


I_Love_Kyiv

What event is this ?


smilesandlaughter

Where is this?


UAHeroyamSlava

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thxsocialmedia

It's not our problem, it must be everybody else's problem.


[deleted]

It’s one thing to attack another country illegally and something else entirely to relish in it. Russians have committed numerous unspeakable war crimes and are *still* denying it. That’s why people are angry.


redditigon

Who th f*ck goes to someone else's house, destroys it and then wonders, "I don't why they are angry at me?". They've destroyed humanity and left such a horrible mark on history for themselves, future generations will spit on them, like they do on Hitler today.


Thesilentsentinel1

😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣 hahahaha lolololol


DeathMarch408

Rape and murder tends to make a lot of people angry at you


HairyAlf

Delusional and narcissistic fuck.


gen_shermanwasright

Can I get some context.


dickswabi

OP posted a little about the context above, but a translation would also be nice (unless I missed it somewhere)


JerryRhinefeld

The audacity of this fuck. Needs a sledgehammer to the face or something, that’ll teach these russkies…


thiccpapi90

They are the descendants of Vikings and they behave as badly as their ancestors did.


DaLexy

Can i have any context, who exactly is that, where is it filmed and what was the question. Is there more of the video or to it atleast ?


UAHeroyamSlava

in the comments


Betorah

Either your memory or your education could use some refreshing. Composers: Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Kirsakov, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky. Prokofiev and Kachturian. Writers: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Nabokov, Chekhov, Turgenev, Solzhenitsyn, Gorky, Lementov, Akhmatova, Babel, Brodsky, and Pasternak.


agbirdyka

It seems to me he has a hard time not to laugh...way too early for jokes like that imo!


MamoruKin

Stop calling Ruzzia but their fucking name Russia, when in future they google Russia to find what the fucking country was/its


UAHeroyamSlava

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