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Originally Posted by neo45
Is there a scientific reason why all these Russians shoot left?
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At one time, left handed writers were forced in school to write right handed. Left was wrong, right was right. If this was still the policy in the USSR, all left handed people would be converted to doing everything right handed. Of course 90% of right handed people shoot left handed.
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The stigma was especially widespread in the former Soviet Union, where pedagogical trends stressed qualities like conformity, discipline, and uniform penmanship.
"It was simply a lack of knowledge that played a role," says Gennady Chichkanov, a Moscow-based clinical psychologist. "It's simpler when a child writes with his right hand. So it's easier to put something in his right hand and say, 'Write.' That's how it was in the Soviet Union."
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