[stuck_in_new_orleans]

uhhhhhh, because they tried to take over the world?

[Destro]

So you fall into the camp identified by this article as Cold War left overs.

"(1) For seventy years, commentators have been anti-Soviet and since obviously some of Russia's foreign policy stances will coincide with those of the USSR, their knee-jerk reaction to argue against these positions in the past carried over to the present day."