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I visited in 2018. The weirdest experience was getting drunk on vodka with 4 locals and listening to them rant. They wanted #1 an end to local corruption (a common complaint all over the world) and #2 they wanted Putin to nuke the US.

I'm not really sure how serious they were about the nuke part but they really didn't like America.

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I am from the same region and until now I did not get used to this. People live surrounded by dirt and corruption but they still don't like America as thou America is making that dirt and corruption. Also online, if someone points to something negative passing in Russia, Belarus, Transnistria, the usual response will be: "But look what is passing in US"

This has been happening for decades, not just online.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Yes, however in the past it was state propaganda as a response to criticisms of human rights violations

Now it's the response of normal people to someone also local criticising a local event, state of afairs, etc.

Every country does this at least to some extent.

I don't think they saw the corruption as necessarily connected. I think they were just pissed that the Soviet Union fell, cutting them off from the "homeland" and blamed America for that.

I reckon if Alaska became nominally independent and Canada became like a hostile Russian client state or something people living in Anchorage would feel similarly to transdniestrians.

Where are you from?

it can be a case of a negative selection, when eveybody not wanting a nuclear action were driven outside of the state. the ones who left, were forced to adapt to local propaganda.

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