“We must not forget that even if Russians look European, they are not European in a cultural sense. They think differently about violence, about death”, Gaub said, speaking to 2DF talk show host Markus Lanz earlier this week.
“Well yes. They have no concept of a liberal, post-modern life. A concept of life that each individual can choose. Instead, life simply can end early with death. Russian life expectancy is quite low, you know…That’s why they treat death differently, that people simply die”, Gaub responded.
“‘The Russian is an orc’, only put in more beautiful language”, one user quipped, commenting on Gaub’s words. “Where ‘orc’ as a term is only the pop-culturally prettied up term for ‘subhuman’”, another added, referring to the term used by the Nazis to refer to Slavs, Jews, Roma, and other "inferior" peoples. “How can you throw out such racist garbage?” one person asked.