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Salutin' Putin: inside a Russian troll house

Former workers tell how hundreds of bloggers are paid to flood
forums and social networks at home and abroad with anti-western
and pro-Kremlin comments.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house)

A few years ago news articles that talked about Russia started being spammed with comments of support for Putin and Russian army. They were written in a somewhat clumsy way, which suggested that they were made by foreigners. People immediately started calling them Russian trolls and the article proves that its exactly what they were. There's not much love for the Russians in Western Europe, that's all I can say.

This is why Western Europe is hell bent on demonising Russia and discrediting any voices that may come to its defence. Just business as usual. Do go on running the Ad Hominem attacks and ignore the actual message that these so-called "trolls" try to tell you.

Can you answer one question: why is it that when a Russian leader works towards destruction of Russia he is praised in the West (Yeltsin - 270 factories demolished during the 90's, thousands of people dead as a result of liberal economical collapse and the ensuing social chaos - the "Wild 90s", or Nikolai II), while a leader who works on rebuilding Russia, making it a better place is immediately gets a shitfront from the West?

PS: Interestingly, this "not love" is not symmetrical. There is no avert anti-Western indoctrination in Russia, and Russians are prepared to be friends with the West (in the 90's they opened up to the West in the typical Russian naïve friendliness, but got the sharp end of the Western love), but only if this friendship is based on mutual respect, not as a Western master/Russian slave relationship.

Was this really a question? Because it looks like you've already answered yourself. I have nothing against strong Russia, rebuilding and so on, but there are many reasons why people dislike Putin. One of them is the way he  got to power (through oligarchs, who he later screwed) and fought to keep it (changed constitution, made his puppet Medvedev a president). There's not much effort from his side to resolve the current situation in Ukraine, he even admitted that his special forces were (and probably still are) operating there. On top of that Malaysian plane was shot with a Russian missile.