Growing up during the Cold War, the Soviets were always portrayed as the aggressor in western media, and at the time being a young impressionable child thought nothing of it.
After some maturing and years, and interacting with some really amazing Russian people, I had looked back at that, and dismissed it as widespread propaganda, and that the leadership of USSR/Russia were no more hardline or extremist than any western nation.
I'm pissed Putin invading a sovereign nation is making me question that.
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