For people who think that the formation that calls itself “Russia” got bad only with midget Putin getting into office, or “broke bad” a hundred years earlier with the “russian revolution”, there is a historic fact – Muscovy-Russia had been exactly the same for almost Millennium now. Even their own poets like Lermontov wrote: “Farewell, farewell, unwashed Russia, the land of slaves, the land of lords”. Since there have been no lords in that area for a while, the modern verision of the verse should be “… the land of slaves, the land of thieves”. The reasons for Europe to see Russia in such a way >
