Russia’s anti-American fever goes beyond the Soviet era’s
By Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post
MOSCOW Thought the Soviet Union was anti-American? Try todays Russia.
After a year in which furious rhetoric has been pumped across Russian airwaves, anger toward the United States is at its worst since opinion polls began tracking it. From ordinary street vendors all the way up to the Kremlin, a wave of anti-U.S. bile has swept the country, surpassing any time since the Stalin era, observers say.
The indignation peaked after the assassination of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, as conspiracy theories started to swirl just a few hours after he was killed that his death was a CIA plot to discredit Russia. (On Sunday, Russia charged two men from Chechnya, and detained three others, in connection with Nemtsovs killing.)
Whole article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russias-anti-us-sentiment-now-is-even-worse-than-it-was-in-soviet-union/2015/03/08/b7d534c4-c357-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html?hpid=z1
I always wondered why the Putinistas here always promoted the idea that Americans hate Russians when the truth is we only hate Putin's repressive regime. Thankfully, the Putinisata here have been banned for the most part and more often their wishful propaganda is called out or ignored.