5 reasons to love Russia

[asket-klim.livejournal.com]

Empire of evil, countrey of bear and vodka -- its names of Russia in USA. Cold war is over, but american people still hate my country. Why? One of my friend (when we was in gym class) sad that USA people loves Rambo and Rocky 4. We love it too! But not because USSR was beaten in this films -- we love it because Stallone was young.

I spend 3 hours to make a list of reasons to love Russia. It adressed to USA. I hope this video will be next (litlle) step to triumph of friendship!

Comments

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

'Millions of flies can not be wrong choosing a shit?'

When it comes to national recognition, world popularity is where it's at. Ask the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China how this works.

'Georgia - the aggressor'

What you're doing is called tautology. You're defining Georgia as the aggressor so anything they do supports them being the aggressor while anything Russia did that would lend support to them being the aggressors is dismissed because "they weren't the aggressors".

Russia entered South Ossetia under the premise that Georgia was attacking and killing civilians indiscriminately having already killed hundreds in ways that were war crimes. That was shown not to have been exactly true. The claims they were rounding up civilians and killing them. That they were tossing grenades into basements with civilians, that they were committing ethnic cleaning were untrue. Russia entered South Ossetia and essentially did the same indiscriminate shooting that Georgia had been doing and killed about the same number. Russia however, pushed into Georgia and attacked Gori.

Even if you accept the idea that they were righteous to enter South Ossetia, They had no reason to invade Georgia other than to try and intimidate Georgia further.

'South Ossetia declared its independence on the basis of the Law of the USSR 1990. "On the Procedure for resolving issues related to the Secession of Union Republics from the USSR"'

During the Soviet time, SO was an autonomous region within Georgia. Georgia's contention, that was agreed upon by almost the entirety of the world, was that it's a part of the Republic of Georgia.

'...this is not Russia. He did not refer anyone. This is a fantasy.'

He's repeating what the Kremlin was saying during that time. The problem is, I'm an English speaker so anything that leaps out at me will be report of the official reports. The closest I could come in finding anything was reports on the Russian Interfax agency citing 1600 dead. Even if the Kremlin had no official statement on the numbers killed, they still allowed South Ossetian propaganda to spread and they even made decisions based on it. If they were wrong then Russia owes Georgia an apology.

'Who first started shooting?

Russian backed South Ossetian guerillas.

'We discuss the legality of the invasion.'

Well then your prior source said the invasion into Georgia and the taking control of South Ossetia was illegal.

Russia had no legal right to invade and occupy South Ossetia.

'...but condemns the protection of civilians.'

Because there was no protection of civilians. I'm telling you this was all Kremlin propaganda. Russia wanted to carve South Ossetia off of Georgia. This was their flimsy justification. You don't have to be ashamed of it but you don't have to support it either.