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Why are the Russians always the bad guys?


In almost every American movie or TV show I've seen that had anyone Russian in it the Russians have been bad. It gets a bit tiresome. Why can't the Russians ever be the good guys?
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...'cause they're a bunch of damned commies.

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Because they are the bad guys in real life? Same reason why the Swedish are rarely played as bad guys, I suppose.

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Russians are like the stormtroopers of the real world. In this movie they kept shooting and shooting never hitting anything.

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Because Russians assassinated Czar Nicholas and his family - thus ensuring that forever more they would be depicted as the cold hearted, blood thirsty, vicious thugs they are. And it works.

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Really? Look at the Russian President, who allegedly had his political rival killed.

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Its a cold war thing!!

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