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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the Caucasus poster from earlier.

Yes, absolutely Russia is racist, even if not officially racist.

I don't even have a forever grudge against Russia. I have visited there many times and things actually were decent in 2012 for foreigners, for the most part. I wanted to visit Adygea and Kabarda, where my family was from, but remember being told by Russians to not associate with "those people" and not visit the Caucasus. I then said, my mother is cherkeshenka, and they told me that Circassians/Kabardians are okay because they are "more like Russians" :shock: . But I don't look like a Caucasus person to them, I'm Circassian and German by heritage and have blonde hair. I went anyway and I had a great time, I got to see Mount Elbrus. Even so, the Russians there told me not to associate with the locals. And yet I found other North Caucasians to be more hospitable and less racist.

That was in 2012, I would never visit Russia again now.

[quote]I was born and raised in Grozny.

There is prejudice toward people from the Caucasus in Russia proper but there is no legal discrimination on the books. In the eyes of the law, there is no difference between them and any other Russian citizen. Certainly enough of them have advanced to dizzying heights in Russia proper in business, politics and the military! Compare this to legal differences and treatment of the colonizer/colonized in Israel, Latin America, colonial Britain etc. What rights does the law in Russia deny to the ethnic Dagestanis?

There is no "insane" level of racism in Russia at all, no.

I'm just going to let this hang here: Chechnya and Ingushetia residents account for every fourth subsidized mortgage loan in Russia.[/quote]

I am gathering that you are ethnic Russian and you left Grozny before the wars?

Tell me then, why do Russians want Chechnya to begin with? I'm assuming you didn't speak the language, had no affinity for the culture, based on the past statements and this attitude that the Chechens needed Russians to save them from themselves. And then Russians complain that they funnel so much money to the Caucasus, you know хватит кормить кавказ. Why not just let it go? Of course I would never want to live in Ramzan Kadyrov's kingdom, but Putin is his enabler. Maybe when he has no more money and support, he will be exposed as a charlatan and would be, removed by his own.

I just don't like the mentality that any small nation NEEDS Russia to "civilize" them.

And back to Ukraine, good luck to Russia on revitalizing the territories they destroyed. What is the end goal, to install more Kadyrovs? More fake potemkin villages? [/quote]

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