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A Tad Racist, But 1967 Was 1967.


The US and Russian spy teams made peace a bit too quickly, IMHO. The all white illegal aliens versus the Yellow Menace.

Dominated by stereotypes and cliches of the era. Overacting/bad acting. Good special effects.

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<<almost all Russians are eurasians>>

What exactly do you mean by that term "eurasian"?

Perhaps you could give us a few examples of "Eurasian" Russians. The ones that come to my mind (like Putin, Gorbachev, and Lenin) do not strike me as "Eurasian".

For what exactly do you have in mind as being the "asian" component of their ancestry? The Mongols, maybe? (I mention them because it's difficult to see what other ethnic Asian group the European component of their ancestry might conceivably have intermarried with in the numbers you're suggesting.)

If so I suspect you'd get an argument about that from the Russians themselves!

Go look up the word "Rus" (which is the root of the words "Russia" and "Russia"). You will find it refers to a Germanic tribe who seem to have played a role not too dissimilar to that of the Norman French who invaded England in 1066: they took over and subjugated a territory inhabited by another people (a slavic one in this case), who some doubtless later intermarried with, and whose native language they afterwards adopted as their own.

For more info, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus'_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians

None of this is to claim there aren't some "Eurasian" Russians", just as there are doubtless some eurasian Britons and Americans. But "almost all"?

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I think you will find that the people called Russian are ethnic Slavs or Slavic. If you are talking about citizens of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, circa 1967, the people were of many, many, races and ethic groups and could not be classified as any one race. Your ignorance is astounding. If it matters, I came from one Irish parent, one Polish parent, so I am of mixed ethnic background. Of course, to a racist of any skin color but pale, I am of the monolithic group 'white'.

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I really pity you. What a sad, pathetic life you must leave, where absolutely everything is filtered by RACE.

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