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Whatever you think, that post is actually racist as are racist all the people who start to rage the moment they see Cyrillic typed in chat. It is racism, because you want to separate people on a different server just based on their ethnicity, not the ping from the server but ethnicity. You think that all Russians are toxic players\don't communicate in English\play bad(or some other absurd reasons).

Well, let's go point by point: 1) Russians don't communicate in English. How can you know that? Do you check IP of every player you are playing with in order to figure out where that person is from? I don't think so, you see some Russians speak Russian or you see someone write in Cyrillic and assume that those people are Russians.

There are couple reasons you might see something like that. People might right something in Cyrillic by accident(not pressing Ctrl+Alt or whatever hotkeys), people might forget to change the chat from general to whisper to friend\party, people might be lazy and communicate with their Russian speaking teammate without switching the chat to party. And of course, some of them are just morons, who write toxic things in Russian(but that's no different from English speaking toxic players, well it's even better for you non-Russians speaking players, because you will not understand that they are toxic or frustrated or whatever). The other reason is the fact that many Russians don't speak English, so they are trying to communicate in the only way they can - in Russian. Some of them think that there might be Russian teammate on a team, some want to be toxic and write bad things about teammates without getting banned(or they think it's funny, idk). Why would you be frustrated over that? You can always mute someone in chat with one simple click.

2) Do Russians play bad? Again how can you know that? Do you track everyone's performance in game based on there residence country? Do Russians play differently more aggressive as someone in the comment section suggested. Well maybe Russians, who write infamous 'cyka blyat' in chat do play more aggressive than average players. You know because they are aggressive in chat and that's the only reason you know that they are Russian. Nah, must be just race.

You don't know about many Russian players, who speak English to you, because they are educated enough to do that, they don't have Cyrillic nicknames, they want to communicate with you, they want to speak English and play on a European server. But know, let's just separate them, based on ethnicity and because you think that most of the Russians are toxic savages, who cannot write a single word in English and are over aggressive.

Can you guess why am I writing a comment to your post? Because there are people like you in the game, who are racist towards Russians or Russian language or both. Do you know who suffers form that racism? People who you hate they don't speak English and they are probably as racist as you are. So, they cannot understand you, they don't use reddit, they might not undestand even simple sentences you will write about them. But I will, and if I will accidentally write something like "Руддщ!" in chat, which doesn't even mean anything(it's "Hello" if I don't switch the keyboard layout) in Russian. Than you will see that there is a Russiantard on your team, and you will assume that I play badly or that I am toxic or whatever comes to your racist mind. Some will even flame for a tiny bid of Cyrillic in chat, which was typed by accident. That will somewhat ruin my game experience, because I will know that there is a short-minded person on my team, that just assumes Russian = bad\toxic.

TL;DR: Not every Russian person will exclusively write in Cyrillic and only speak Russian.

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