{"id":351411,"date":"2018-03-09T06:05:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T05:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-the-west-cannot-stomach-russians\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T06:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T05:05:58","slug":"why-the-west-cannot-stomach-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-the-west-cannot-stomach-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the West cannot stomach Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>When it comes to Russia or the Soviet Union, reports and historical accounts do get blurry; in the West they do, and consequently in all of its \u2018client states\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Fairy tales get intermingled with reality, while fabrications are masterfully injected into the subconsciousness of billions of people worldwide. Russia is an enormous country, in fact, the largest country on Earth in terms of territory. It is scarcely inhabited. It is deep, and as a classic once wrote: \u201cIt is impossible to understand Russia with one\u2019s brain. One could only believe in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Western mind generally doesn\u2019t like things unknown, spiritual and complex. Since the \u2018old days\u2019, especially since the crusades and monstrous colonialist expeditions to all corners of the world, the Westerners were told fables about their own \u201cnoble deeds\u201d performed in the plundered lands. Everything had to be clear and simple: \u201cVirtuous Europeans were civilizing savages and spreading Christianity, therefore, in fact, saving those dark poor primitive souls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, tens of millions were dying in the process, while further tens of millions were shackled and brought to the \u201cNew Worlds\u201d as slaves. Gold, silver, and other loot, as well as slave labor had been (and still are) paying for all those European palaces, railroads, universities and theatres, but that did not matter, as the bloodshed was most of the time something abstract and far away from those over-sensitive eyes of the Western&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/03\/why-the-west-cannot-stomach-russians\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to Russia or the Soviet Union, reports and historical accounts do get blurry; in the West they do, and consequently in all of its \u2018client states\u2019. Fairy tales get intermingled with reality, while fabrications are masterfully injected into the subconsciousness of billions of people worldwide. Russia is an enormous country, in fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}