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Originally Posted by Hugh
Actually, in a previous life, part of my job was to understand the Russian military and civilian psyche and behaviours, with a focus on how the Stalinist era and the WW2 shaped that (and I have kept that up as a civvy) - if we didn't try to understand how and why they would potentially do stuff, our analysis would be faulty/skewed.
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My comment was intended in more general terms at the press manipulated British public and I include myself in that
. Since childhood, we've been fed this 'dangerous-Rusky-threat-they-want-to-nuke-us-all' rubbish. The (certainly modern day) Russians are not our enemy nor do we need to starve them back into the 1950's imho.
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Originally Posted by Osem
Thunk! (That's the sound of Hugh playing his trump card...)
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A curious comment from the normally informed and articulate contributor that you are. I doubt very much that Hugh feels our exchange in this thread has been some form of one-upmanship. Gawd.