Anti-American sentiment in Russia
Tensions between the two states were briefly relaxed in the 1970s owing to the detente, but relations took a turn for the worse again in the early 1980s with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
By 1989, the communist governments in the Eastern European Soviet satellite states were overthrown, and in 1991, the USSR itself was dissolved, leading to a brief era of cooperation between the US and the newly-formed Russian Federation.
[3] The proposed alternative was the so-called dictatorship of the proletariat where the ruling communist vanguard party is the only allowed political entity.
[4][5] As early as in 1919, Lenin was recorded addressing Red Army soldiers where he claimed that "capitalists of England, France and America are waging war against Russia".
The following themes should provide the basis for anti-American propaganda in press, radio and movies: ... Capitalistic monopolies of US inspirators of aggression policy ...
"[17] After the color revolutions of the 2000s took place in former Soviet states with tacit support of the US, the political climate and processes in Russia have intensified as well.
[19][20] On November 19, 2021, two members of the U.S. Congress said the United States should cease to recognize Vladimir Putin as president of Russia after 2024; the Kremlin denounced it as an attempt to meddle in its domestic affairs.
Some of them are voiced by top government officials and supported by major Russian think tanks and academia: According to some popular Russian political writers and scientists, there is a centuries-long geopolitical standoff between Russia and the Western nations, especially with the Anglo-Saxon states such as the US and the UK, which have been openly and covertly working on destroying Russia by any means since the times of the Great Game.
There are some political writers, active and retired military officers as well as other public figures in Russia, who openly claim that war with the US or the NATO is imminent.
Many public figures openly state that the West is using a wide range of means to discredit the nation on a global stage.
Proponents of this view include: Top government officials Media Academia The imminent disintegration of the United States is a widespread belief in Russia since the Bolshevik takeover in 1917.
The plan was first published in Russia shortly after the dissolution of the USSR and was often quoted by prominent Russian politicians, journalists and writers.
However, some Russian political scientists and writers strongly believe that the main purpose of the project was to develop psychological and other means of influence over the Soviet people.
According to believers, this research led the US to develop psychological and information warfare techniques, intensively used against the Soviet Union to destroy it.
[72] Some believe that those techniques are still being heavily used against Russia, with the purpose of destroying and partitioning the country into several parts, which will be eventually annexed by the US and its allies.
Some sources claim that the usage originated among Russian military servicemen during the Kosovo War of 1998-1999, where they allegedly heard this term.
We need him not as an enemy defeated, trampled and lowered but as heavily armed guy in a pith helmet who dismembers our core Eurasian world, steals our unique nanotechnology and corrupts our highest spirituality.
"[77] After the Rose Revolution, the ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia changed its geopolitical preferences and started cooperating much more closely with NATO and the United States.
That led the US and NATO to conduct very close cooperative work on the issues of military training and equipment with Georgia, which had unresolved territorial disputes, including South Ossetia.
[80] Shortly after the conflict, media producer and member of State Duma, Konstantin Rykov, created a documentary called War 08.08.08.
The reason being that the US (then under George W. Bush) was interested in increasing presidential candidate John McCain's ratings, and demonizing Russia as an aggressor was key to it.
[86] [87] According to some Russian experts, anti-American sentiments are driven largely by domestic political climate and has little relationship to US foreign policy.
The partial success of this policy exposes a number of serious failures in U.S. public diplomacy, which has been in decline since the end of the Cold War.
