The Russia bashing has backfired.

[Bluenorthwest]

64. I've been traveling the world since I was a kid, been to places that don't even exist

anymore, I've been everywhere. And never, not once, have I met any person who made the argument that to question the controversial issues of the time and place was to 'hate the people'. Every single person I have met in dozens of countries have been perfectly able to discuss what's going one without resorting to claims that to be critical of a law or a politician in their country is to be 'attacking the country as a whole'. It is an absurd, undemocratic and meritless claim.
'To criticize apartheid is to hate the South African people'?
'To oppose the Iraq War is to speak hate propaganda against the American People, which will do no one any favors, I assure you'?

No, these cries for Russia to be given a pass for it's bad human rights actions are unlike any other attitude I have seen anywhere in the world, over 40 years of travel. I reject their calls for special treatment.