Originally posted by fd ski
There are 2 nationalities that you really don't want to kidnap:
Russian and Israeli.
Revenge will be anything but civilized.
Sure

Our beloved goverment employees will scream in anger all over national TV channels, then our wholeheartedly-electred president will say something about toilets and head circumcision for the terrorists, then some bastards like Stomakhin and Novodvorskaya will scream in hysteria about Russian imperialists and bloody heritage of Stalin that makes kidnapping of ethnic Russians and Ukrainians a moral duty of every civilized person.
At the same time Ukrainians will shoot down another airliner with 70 Jews on board.
2 years later the kidnapped Russians will be released because their relatives sold their flats to pay terrorists, and it will be declared another brilliant special-service operation...
I find Israely way much more civilized.
Unfortunately, the times when Soviet government could "send a document and point missiles at the bastards" are long gone
