Friday, November 25, 2005
Only In Russia
It would be funny, if it weren't so sad. From the Telegraph
A commercial for the LDPR party for Moscow's council elections next month suggests that immigrants are responsible for all the city's car crashes and violent crime.Russians have always been a bit xenophobic, and racism is a common outcome of such. I have witnessed a lot of racism on my two trips to Russia, so I am not all that surprised. Don't justify it, just agreeing with the article based on presonal observation. But here is the funny part.
Another, from its rival party Rodina, which means "Motherland" in Russian, shows four men apparently from the country's turbulent south behaving boorishly.
Human rights groups have condemned both. But the loudest claims of racism have been raised by the parties themselves - at each other.That is quintessentially Russian, and as I say, over a lesser matter would really be funny.
