We were in Prague a few years ago trying to hail a car to the airport and the driver couldn't understand our destination. Most older Czechs speak Russian as it was taught in school, so I strung together a sentence in bad Russian hoping to clarify.
Taxi driver went completely ballistic screaming and pounding about the Russians, Russian language, and petrified all of us with with a first class tantrum. He did deliver us to the airport spouting and fuming all the way. whew
Happened to me on a bus in Latvia too when the bus ticket lady required the fare and we didn't understand what she was saying, we asked her in Russian. Woman pitched a fit and literally spat on my friend (who was Welsh).
Former Warsaw Pact citizens don't take kindly to Russians, just sayin'.
Czechs hate the Russians, period.
We were in Prague a few years ago trying to hail a car to the airport and the driver couldn't understand our destination. Most older Czechs speak Russian as it was taught in school, so I strung together a sentence in bad Russian hoping to clarify.
Taxi driver went completely ballistic screaming and pounding about the Russians, Russian language, and petrified all of us with with a first class tantrum. He did deliver us to the airport spouting and fuming all the way. whew
Happened to me on a bus in Latvia too when the bus ticket lady required the fare and we didn't understand what she was saying, we asked her in Russian. Woman pitched a fit and literally spat on my friend (who was Welsh).
Former Warsaw Pact citizens don't take kindly to Russians, just sayin'.
This is why many joined NATO. Very few people in those places like Russia because of what they have been through. It destroyed them.