However the posters that were Russian sympathizers were fairly obvious. FreeRepublic noticed about after 3 days the number of new posters with pro Russian stories.

Here in the States we fight the PR info war between ideologues or liberal vs. conservatives. We are pretty tuned to it and see it easily. Besides Americans who live in Russia like many go native and easily can be pro native vs. American.

Actually I like seeing the other side, we get viewpoints that may show where we are blinkered.