Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria

Why do the USA, UK and Europe so hate Russia? How is it that Western antipathy, once thought due to anti-Communism, could be so easily revived over a crisis in distant Ukraine, against a Russia no longer communist? Why does the West accuse Russia of empire-building, when 15 states once part of the defunct Warsaw Pact are now part of NATO, and NATO troops now flank the Russian border?
These are only some of the questions Creating Russophobia iinvestigates. Mettan begins by showing the streng...