They died like human beings, doing something for themselves, instead of dying like pigs for someone else's money.

It's part of the family

The strategy is "we don't have to remove him ourselves if some chud decides to retaliate"

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My parents are saying it's divine intervention that he lived. They're comparing it to Washington's near misses during the Seven Years' War.

Also my mom let me know she thinks the moon landing was fake

He could have done that by following Frankenstein and scaring people away instead of killing

Frankenstein's monster did in fact make a conscious decision to be evil

Racism is fluid, and in times like this, US and UK media likes to try and spin Russians as asiatic barbarians. They invoke tropes associated with the Mongol empire and call Russians "orcs". This goes back as early as the nineteenth century when the British and Russian empires were in an intense rivalry over control of central Asia.

It's not illegal for Twitter to censor speech in the US either

"Celebrating obnoxious ignorance" is probably the best way to put it.

The United States is a country where you get dirty looks for trying to pronounce a foreign word correctly. Hell, insisting on saying it wrong is just proof that the other language doesn't matter.

Never recommend a book to an American. In our culture, it is the gravest of insults.

I don't think my other comment really answers your question, so I'll be clearer. This phenomenon is not just a Soviet cliché. It is a clear picture of the American people's knowledge about the outside world. A high schooler who can point to France and Germany on a map is doing better than most of their peers.

Online is the only place you can find any American who knows anything. The ratio offline is even worse.

The vast, vast majority of Americans are like this.

I once had a coworker from Azerbaijan. I was his only coworker who knew where his country is. He was baffled and appalled at the general ignorance.

"It was part of the Soviet Union!"

Poor dude thought America teaches literally anything about its past or present rivals in schools. After that, another coworker just called him "Russian" for the whole rest of the time I worked there.