At another rashist atrocity, a colleague told me - not all Russians are like that!
No, not all of them are like that. But during and for a long, long time after That war, the entire USSR spoke with hatred, disgust and curse about the Germans. Not that they weren't all like that.
Collective stigma is inevitable.
Wars are started by chiefs, but fought by peoples.
That is why the King Rat hiding in the bunker caused many years of hard-to-repair damage to the entire people of Russia. He turned Russia into a monster, a monster that billions of people on the planet hate or fear.
And the attitude especially towards the Russians (because there is a weak distinction between R-O-SSIA and R-U-ssians in the public consciousness) for a very, very long time will be like a seriously ill and failed, embittered and paranoid, fearful and complex people. Nothing that not all Russians are like that, and even that most Russians are not like that at all...

03/07/2023