First off, I don't hate Russian people. I consider the average Russian citizen to be just as much a victim of the USSR/CCCP or Stalin, or Lenin, or Kruschev or the rest of the Kremlin/KGB cohorts as any of the rest of their victims, like the Poles, the East Germans, the Cheks, or any number of others.
However, I have to wonder how you can ask the vast majority of the free world "what did Russia or the Communists ever do to you" with a straight freakin face.
Really.
For starters, if Dad were alive, you could ask him how he felt about Stalin backing China and North Korea, so he could spend a wonderful time in South Korea in the early fifties being shot at by those wonderful marvels of Soviet technology like the Mig 15, and any number of other pieces of Soviet military hardware. Not to mention the Russian military personnel operating some of that equipment and directing the operation of the rest of it.
I've got a few dozen friends you could ask how much they enjoyed their time in South East Asia, under pretty much the same conditions.
Hell, you could ask the general population of the South Eastern US how much they enjoyed the Cuban Missle Crisis, you know, that wonderful little episode where RUSSIA sent Castro all sorts of neat little toys to point at the region, and all sorts of help to operate it.
Shoot, you could ask the families of the pilots who died flying cargo planes into Berlin when RUSSIA decided to blockade the city and starve it into submission.
Are you so ignorant and uneducated that I need to continue this laundry list of what RUSSIA did that affected average US citizens?
Or are you going to deny that any of this happened? Or better yet, deny that RUSSIA was involved? Hell, go us all one bettter and blame the US for all of the above.
Naw, RUSSIA never did a damned thing to the US or its citizens. Nothing REALLY happened between 1946 and 1989. It was all a dream. Thousands of Americans didn't die opposing Soviet backed communist aggression. Never happened. No reason at all for any lingering bitterness or animosity.