>>507457161Again, i think we respect Russia instead of hating it.
The negative association with Russia is, as stated, with communism and the URSS.
There are two reasons for that:
1) CIA-backed military dictatorships which villified communism and told people that it was literally hell on earth to live under communism.
2) The fact that we've been poor for so long that we want to be able to own what we buy (a little bit of land, a house etc).
Funnily enough late-stage capitalism is such a shitty thing as well that you also don't own shit. You THINK you own your house, your car, a plot of land, but if you don't pay your taxes on your properties then the banks are gonna come and take it away from you using law-enforcement.