urilukin said:
So a long time ago I posted this : (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.304300-No-Russian?page=1)
fell free to comment on that post.
Anyway, I want to bring the subject back into the spotlight because almost all of the comments were about the No "Russian mission" and maybe that was a bad example what I wanted to say is that there is a VERY anti-Russian attitude in modern FPS's and we shouldn't make up excuses like "Oh,you know there was one good Russian dude the the game wasn't anti-Russian" for their shitty storytelling.
You have to remember that despite a brief period of reform following the collapse of the soviet union, Russia has more or less remained opposed to the US and western interests. It wasn't that long ago that we had that whole incident with Georgia, which involved more than just the invasion of Georgia, spilling over into Russia trying to bully the EU, and threatening Poland over having missle interception bases (US ones) which inconveinently prevented Russia from firing missles further into, or accross the EU, even threatening to nuke them at one point before stomping off.
This is to say nothing of the massive Russian crime syndicates that hit the western world in greater numbers than ever before when the USSR collapsed, many of these syndicates dealing in Russian military hardware, and being run and organized by former soviet authorities (intel agents, soldiers, etc...). Many have argued that the collapse of the USSR brought about an invasion, albiet an underworld invasion rather than over attempt at military conquest.
You can say "yeah but" and argue all those points to your own satisfaction I'm sure, but that's the way things are, and most importantly they have influanced perceptions. Like it or not despite some attempts to reform, most people in the Western World, the US in paticular, still see Russians largely causing, or being the cause of problems. Even beyond things like Georgia, understand that the connection to crime has had a major influance as well, similar to how Italians became so heavily associated with the mafia (and it's not entirely undeserved given that the mob comes along with large groups of Italians, even if not all Italians are mobsters). When you go from The Cold War, to A Crime War, it doesn't matter how you attempt to justify it, people aren't going to take a positive view of the group involved.