Patrick Bateman wrote: Mon 25 Mar 2024, 3:33 pm The attack poses a dilemma, frequent in the West, for liberals like Neil. Putin's your bogeyman, so what happens when Putin's country is attacked by other (anti-gay, anti-democratic) forces? It's one they have yet to resolve.
The point is that it is obvious that the attack was carried out by radical Islamic terrorists, but for some reason they are not very willing to talk about it. It is tense that the terrorists were living a normal life, working somewhere, even having families, and at one point they took automatic rifles and started beating people. Now the national and religious issue is carefully avoided, because it is very dangerous.
The huge problem is that when the USSR collapsed, the republics that gained independence hoped for democracy and prosperity, but it did not turn out that way. In Tajikistan they are trying to contain radical Islam, but it is infiltrated from Afghanistan and there are a lot of problems because of that. Now citizens from the former Soviet republics go to Russia, but not always they adapt and lead a peaceful way of life.
The difference between Russia and Europe is the attitude towards migrants - in Russia nobody pays any benefits to migrants, nobody gives them flats. If you want to survive, you have to work!
In Sweden, every 5th inhabitant is a migrant and of course everyone is afraid that it will be like in Paris, where the police are afraid to come to some neighbourhoods.
In Russia, people live under stress. Some people have left Russia, but they are not better off because a foreign culture and language is still a foreign culture. Someone settled in Dubai or America.....
For example, in the USA it is not customary to get to know a woman on the street, otherwise she can sue you for harassment - this is alien to Russia. And how else to approach a girl for acquaintance? Or you have to smile at everyone all the time - this is not customary in Russia. Money transfers are all long. Neighbours in Europe snitch on each other.
I have an acquaintance in Munich works, told me that neighbours called the police because his window lamp was burning brightly and the cat went onto the neighbour's balcony! They threatened to evict him if he interfered. In Russia, this is solved more easily. You go to your neighbour, tell him everything directly or punch him in the face if he doesn't understand.
When I first came to Finland, it was a shock. Everyone in the shops smiles, asking what they can do to help. This is not always the case here. My first thought was: Are they even adequate? Smiling at strangers for no reason. And in Turkey, for example, sellers grab your hand or pinch you so that you pay attention to his goods - this is not our custom. People here value personal space and it is not customary to kiss like in France.
In Europe it is not customary to punish children - they can take them away, but in Russia they punish children.
Relations between people in Russia are more direct and honest. This has both minuses and pluses, as honesty puts many things in their proper place.
And in the case of the terrorists - they led ordinary lives, came from Tajikistan and at some point became killers, as if the devil had entered them. But it was hard to tell from their behaviour what they might do the next day, because they have a different mentality altogether, and as it turned out, a simple hairdresser was turned into a serial killer.
The mentality of Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Molodovans is similar, but the southern republics are different.
