Originally Posted by
WHBM
I now it's fashionable for people to write all sorts of disparaging remarks about Russia, generally done by those who have not visited or even have knowledge of the country
As a russian national who lived long years in both ussr and russia, I can tell you that those "disparaging" remarks are just the tip of the iceberg. I don't want to go into the details, but I'm not surprised by the fact that Netherlands were bullied by russians and gave up. No matter what KLM did, the fact is: they were bullied and they gave up.